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HYLAND Such is the case of Timorous Beasties' sumptuous toiles and repeats. Founded in Glasgow in 1990, that city's year as European City of Culture, by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons, who met studying textile design at Glasgow School of Art, the studio today is internationally acclaimed for designs that echo the golden age of copperplate engraving, or upset the thousand-year- old tradition of damask pattern with blotches, drips and splatters. The Beasties, which in one amusing case include an iguana, writhe and squirm down the panels in elegantly rendered gold leaf. Of their oeuvre, McAuley and Simmons declare, "Timorous Beasties share a…world view, where plants, animals and society are visually inextricable… devoted to how that impacts as pattern design in our daily experience of furnished spaces, from one-bedroom flats to country villas, to the halls of civic and government buildings…." If only, say, Manhattan Housing Court could encompass Timorous Beasties' cheery iguana; it would be a happier place. Detroit Wallpaper Company