Hypnos Showcases Craft Expertise featuring Fabric By Emma Shipley at The Brit List Awards 2025
With The Brit List 2025 theme being ‘walk on the wild side’, Hypnos featured Emma Shipley’s striking Paradise Lost fabric as ‘craft, design and colour run wild’
What are The Brit List Awards?
The Brit List Awards, is an annual celebration of excellence across British and international hospitality and design. Now in its ninth year, the event recognises trailblazers across 13 categories, spotlighting the top 25 interior designers, architects, and hoteliers shaping the future of hospitality.
Hosted at the iconic Ministry of Sound, the 2025 Brit List Awards delivered its biggest celebration yet, and as an exclusive headline partner, Hypnos took centre stage, introducing an extraordinary, handcrafted bed to a night devoted to creativity, innovation, and bold expression.
Craft, Design and Colour Ran Wild at the Brit List with Hypnos
The specially crafted bed provided a truly unique showpiece for the awards: a specially handcrafted ‘dancefloor bed’ dressed in Emma Shipley’s mesmerising Paradise Lost fabric.
The bed became a symbol of the night’s energy, where craft met imagination, and where design ran wild in pattern, texture, and colour. This partnership beautifully showcased Hypnos’ commitment to artisanal skill, sustainable luxury, and boundary-pushing creativity.
What Was It Like at the Brit List This Year?
In a word? Wild. With more than 600 guests filling the legendary Ministry of Sound on 5th November, the Brit List Awards 2025 transformed into a vibrant playground of uninhibited design. Guests were greeted by zebra-striped dancers, dazzled by shimmering burlesque performances, and immersed in music from bongo drummers and a live singer improvising with the DJ.
The venue itself roared with artistic expression, body paint stations, animal-print photobooths, live art raffles, glittering selfie walls, and a bespoke stage floor all contributed to an unforgettable sensory journey.
It was a night of colour, creativity, and celebration, honouring the individuals redefining hospitality while embracing the wild side of design.
What Makes Emma Shipley’s Fabric Paradise Lost So
Special?
Emma Shipley’s Paradise Lost fabric is a fantastical escape into an imagined world, an intricate landscape inspired by myths, legends, fairytales, and the raw beauty of the natural world. The design combines many of Shipley’s most beloved hand-drawn illustrations, digitally printed onto a richly textured base.
Shipley’s work is instantly recognisable. Each piece begins as a pencil drawing before merging traditional craftsmanship with contemporary techniques. Her style is bold, colourful, and unapologetically imaginative, perfect for a night devoted to letting creativity run wild.
As a British graphic artist celebrated globally, Shipley has built a brand known for ethical production, premium materials, and a deep commitment to protecting endangered wildlife. Her designs seen in luxury homes, boutiques, and department stores and invites dreamers, adventurers, and maximalists into a world of curious creatures and enchanted landscapes.
Paradise Lost embodies that spirit: mystical, vibrant, and designed to spark imagination.
The Craft Behind the Bed
The Hypnos bed showcased at the Brit List Awards was a statement of artistry but also brought more of the wild to the event with a mattress featuring exotic plant based fibres inspired by their collaboration with the Eden Project, the Harmony Ortho. Each Hypnos bed is handmade using time-honoured techniques, sustainable materials, and an uncompromising commitment to quality.
For this special creation, Hypnos’ craftspeople paired their iconic bed with Emma Shipley’s Paradise Lost fabric, ensuring every curve, line, and surface highlighted the richness of the design. The result was a breathtaking fusion of craftsmanship and artwork: the comfort and precision of Hypnos, wrapped in the wild, dreamlike world of Shipley’s illustrations.
This collaboration epitomised the spirit of the Brit List Awards, bold, imaginative, and beautifully untamed.