About

Patricia Nurchandra is an Indonesian-born designer from New Zealand who has extensive global academic, professional, and travel experience within Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. Educated in the Netherlands, the U.S, and New Zealand with degrees in International Business Management, and in Visual Arts & Design, she has professional background in graphic design, and in product management with global brands, before embarking on the path to create her interiors line, Patricia Nurchandra Designs. Patricia's print designs have previously been showcased at the prestigious Première Vision Paris and London Textile Fair, and her textile artwork has been exhibited at Pataka Museum + Art in New Zealand. She has also represented New Zealand at the Asia Pacific Health Forum through her graphic design work.

Under her interior line, Patricia creates exotic contemporary fabric and wallpaper designs based on the archival motifs and rich heritage of Indonesian Batik - her native country's ancient textile art and the traditional cloth she grew up with. After years of studying textile arts & design overseas, she became aware of the unrivalled decorative quality of Batik as well as the cultural, philosophical, and historical aspect behind its motifs. Patricia was compelled to safeguard the cultural significance of Batik by utilizing archived motifs and applying unique contemporary colors to them in her design work, while exploring the meanings behind those motifs. While living in the West, she also noticed the lack of contemporary Batik designs available for the Western home & interiors market. Patricia's line was created specifically for the global interior market where there is currently no dedicated full collections of contemporary Batik designs that explore the stories behind the motifs.

Patricia's Batik designs is a love letter to the magnificent cloth that shaped her work as a visual artist & designer. It is also an homage to her native island, Java - the very place in the world where Batik was most developed and evolved throughout its long history.