A textile designer by trade, Carolina Irving has spent decades scouring the world for examples of extraordinary craftsmanship, finding it in archives, museum collections and tiny, off-the-beaten-track ateliers on her travels. Born to Venezuelan parents and raised in Paris, she studied Art History and Archaeology at the École du Louvre, where she began her lifelong fascination with design and the decorative arts. Carolina worked in magazines for several years before founding her eponymous textile atelier in 2006, creating vibrant fabrics that reinterpret colours and patterns from across the globe, and from throughout history.