Manuel Canovas

Manuel Canovas is colour, straight from Paris. Founded in 1963 by Manuel Canovas - an art and archaeology graduate of the École du Louvre - the house made its name with large-scale patterns in bold, joyful colour, a deliberate break from the restraint of the time.

Today it is loved for luminous prints, embroideries, velvets, stripes and toiles, many drawn from eighteenth-century French documents and reworked with a painterly, modern confidence. Part of the Colefax Group, it remains one of the most colourful names in French decoration.

At Muse & Maker we make Manuel Canovas fabrics into bespoke, made-to-order furniture in our Surrey workshop, ready to preview on your chosen piece in our 3D configurator. Order a swatch at £1, credited when you order, and ask us to source any Canovas design you have your heart set on.