Beautiful Bird Cushions

Cushions add style and warmth to interiors and are perfect accessories when the weather is at its coldest. A new addition to the Keir Townsend showroom is an imaginative range of Indian bird cushions from designer Anjali Hood, capturing their distinct and varied plumages in luxurious silk velvet.

If there's one thing Anjali is expert on it's velvet. 'My grandfather imported the first machines to make velvet in India,' she explains. 'Velvet is a material I know about intimately, that I love.' Her unique British-made cushions use silk velvet very creatively indeed to express the opulence of the bird pelts and the unique patterns of tail feathers and other characteristic features.

Each of the cushions has a duck feather pad, invisible zip and is lined with pure silk twill. Anjali's attractive logo is punched into the reverse side. On display in the Keir Townsend showroom is the delicious looking Red Avadavat, 55 x 35cm (£95) as well as some striking monochrome patterned cushions, based on the Amur Falcon, 60cm x 60cm, for £150, but orders can be placed in colours that pick up on the hues of any decor.

There's the blue, greens and purples of the Himalayan Monal, the bejewelled beauty of Tickell's Blue Flycatcher or the rich brown and cream of the Great Frigate. Indian birds certainly offer a wide range of colour and pattern that makes these cushions very special and will add beauty to any interior.