Collection: The Oxford Collection


Beatrice Bloom London has curated an iconic print pattern by using Osbourne & Little's 'Penguin Library' wallpaper.  


Penguin Books was founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane. The concept behind Penguin was to make quality literature affordable and accessible to the general public. To distinguish Penguin books from other publications, Edward Young, a 21-year-old office junior, was given the task of designing a distinctive and recognisable cover. Young came up with the idea of using a simple, coluor-coded design with horizontal bands.

The first Penguin book, "Ariel" by André Maurois, was released on July 30, 1935, and had a tripartite cover design with horizontal bands of colour – orange for fiction, green for crime, and blue for biography. Pelican Books, a non-fiction imprint of Penguin, was established in 1937, expanding the publisher's focus to include educational and informative works.


Painted in Little Greene's shade of 'Jack Black'  This pigment is derived by gathering the residue generated from the soot and combustion of oil - it's an absolute back that allows the colourful print decoupaged onto the box to really pop. 

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