'We have been forced to slow down and truly enjoy the time we spend at home,' says Lucy Searle, editor-in-chief at Homes & Gardens. The decorating trends for 2022 will see us wanting to embrace health and wellbeing in the home, as well as comforting and cossetting textures and elements. Restraint is required here fantastical touches are enough. Create your own Narnia with cascading flowers and mythical references. This imaginative approach to decorating allows for originality and flair. Upholstered furniture is catching up, too – SCP is on a mission to eliminate foam, replacing it with coconut hair, wool and feathers, and occasionally using a small amount of recycled foam. Rose Uniacke’s Remnant Weave cushion collection is handwoven in the brand’s leftover textiles, each unique, while lifestyle brand Domestic Science’s new range is made from found materials including Hungarian linen sacks and 19th-century French linen sheets. Furniture brand Lorfords has turned to vintage textiles, upholstering seating in salvaged European linen and hemp and eco-focused fabric.

Tom Dixon recently upholstered one of his chairs in Pinatex, shining a spotlight on the biodegradable plant-based leather alternative, which is made from usually wasted pineapple leaf fibre. The future looks bright, however, as a new generation of sustainable textiles gather pace.

Until now the eco-friendly fabric movement tended to focus on those woven from recycled plastics, which – while meaning well – raises several issues: they rely on plastic usage rather than creating long lasting, reparable, green alternatives when washed they generate non-biodegradable plastic microfibres and there are no guarantees over how recyclable they will eventually be.

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