With Spring finally here, flowers are in full bloom. Here is a little history of floral patterns throughout the years with French Bull.

The first floral pattern ever designed by French Bull was Kaleidoscope. It debuted in the first half of 2004 along side Fantasia, another fabulous floral that lasted us four seasons. Kaleidoscope was replaced the following season, but was recently relaunched and revamped, and it will soon be seen as a cake stand in Off Saks Fifth Avenue stores. Fantasia was eventually released as a salad server and can still be purchased today on frenchbull.com!

Next, two very different floral hues that can still be seen in various French Bull Collections. Delight is adored by French Bull Korea, while Shadow Flower, most recently in floor mat design, can be bought today on Fab.com! Both patterns have had a very long run with many of our licensees, including stationary, wrapping paper, and neoprene Built cases.

Delight Casserole Dishes manufactured and sold by French Bull Korea

Mischa Barton with her Built Shadow Flower Neoprene Lap Top Case

Fall of 2005 saw the debut of three blossoming designs . Grace, one of our very first salad server prints, was short lived and was only around for two seasons; however, Mosaic and Barcelona became collection mainstays with Mosaic still being a top seller this day. Barcelona was also used by a French Bull fan to wrap a smart car. This is one of our favorite uses of Barcelona to date!

Grace Salad Servers

Barcelona Car

Crush

2006 saw the release of simpler designs that incorporated more black and white than typically seen by French Bull. Vine has continued to sell and is now one of our best selling neoprene slippers!

Vine Slippers

Daisy

Tulip

Check back next week for the remaining designs!

Here’s a quick update on French Bull Korea!

French Bull is rapidly growing in South Korea. They are currently expanding to many of the Lotte Department stores with the most recent in Daejeon. Instead of using melamine, French Bull Korea offers French Bull designs on white porcelain along with other fabulous items. Check out the great photos of the new location below!

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Gibson Overseas, a global leader in tableware, has recently signed a license agreement with French Bull to produce a colorful and innovative line of ceramics and housewares. From cocktail glasses to cookware, it is a texture change of the usual bright and colorful melamine manufactured by French Bull. Sold and marketed through Gibson, the collection was launched in March at the International Housewares Show in Chicago, with a larger launch here in New York at the Tabletop show last week. Here are a few pictures of the booth in the Gibson showroom.

Entrance of the Gibson Showroom

Here are a few of our favorites from the collection!

“Together with Gibson’s mighty infrastructure and French Bull’s highly identifiable design perspective and devoted following, we couldn’t be happier to have the great opportunity to boundlessly innovate and extend the French Bull brand’s reach for all to LIVE VIVID,” said Jackie Shapiro, French Bull creator.

Wooriz international is our French Bull distributor and licensee in Korea. http://frenchbull.co.kr/ They just wrapped up their trade show and did a great job. Check out these fab pics, and If you’re ever in South Korea let us know!

Kiss and Multidot bedding

French Bull Valentines Day card range by American Greetings

We consider ourselves a very lucky brand to have a licensing agreement with American Greetings which was founded in 1906, and run by members of the family since its inception. AG has done a beautiful job making our patterns exude the love they were created with in a French Bull Valentine’s Day card collection now available at their Carlton card stores and Target. American Greeting’s attention to detail including color vibrancy, glitter, foil, ribbons, die cuts, tip ons is astounding, giving us all a big bang for the buck!