Dunford Wood Studios
Cut a dash.
Don’t be a stuffed shirt – spice up your wardrobe and express your boundless imagination by wearing a work of art by Dunford Wood Designs.
Excel expectation.
Dunford Wood paints silk bow ties. Not plain and simple ones, you understand, but fiery, kaleidoscopic extravaganzas, pastel posers and deep subtle style setters. Have a look at what’s up here on the site. If you don’t find what you want, you can always commission something special.
Defy definition.
A bow tie is like the ideal life – you have to encourage it, tweak it to get it right. Even then of course it is always a little askew, but so it should be. It shows character. It shows it is hand tied, and not ready made.
Dunford Wood ties are painted freehand onto pure white silk. It is a form of grown up doodling – rarely are sketches made beforehand. It is an immediate and spontaneous way of working, making each lively article a unique work of art.
No two are identical.
The business started over 30 years ago, when Hugh Dunford Wood painted a few bow ties for his friends in Paris. Since first appearing in London in the late 1970s, Dunford Wood Designs grew by accident and design, adding colour, style and wit to stores from Paul Smith to Joseph, Yoshi Yamamoto to Bergdorf Goodman, in 7th Avenue, Rodeo Drive and Savile Row, from Bermuda to Berlin, Sicily to Sydney, from Tokyo to Texas.
Dunford Wood have been commissioned for films and stage, for business awards, for chefs and waiters and snooker players, TV presenters, orchestras, formal presentations and for personal celebrations. Company ties around a theme or a logo can be dynamic, lifting you head and neck above the competition.
