Romo Group

The Romo Group is a family-owned British textile house founded in 1902 in Nottingham, England — one of the longest-running independently-owned luxury fabric and wallcovering manufacturers in the world. Now in its fifth generation of family ownership, Romo Group designs, weaves and prints across six distinct brands, each positioned at a different point on the luxury-to-contemporary spectrum. Together the six brands cover virtually every interior fabric brief — from country-house traditional weaves through transitional contemporary prints to graphic urban statement velvets.

The Six Romo Group Brands

Each brand inside the Romo Group has its own design studio, its own creative direction, and its own pricing tier — but they share the same Nottingham design and production heritage and the same commitment to in-house design rather than license-driven collections.

Romo

The original brand and the flagship of the group, named for the founder's family. Romo is the largest of the six brands and the broadest in product range — fabrics, wallcoverings, trimmings, accessories, and rugs across a transitional luxury aesthetic. Romo collections are released twice a year (the iconic January and September seasonal launches) and each release covers six to eight new design stories. Romo is the right starting point for buyers exploring the group for the first time.

Black Edition

Romo Group's contemporary statement brand — bold colour, graphic pattern, lustrous velvets, and the most fashion-forward design point in the family. Black Edition is the brand of choice for interior designers working on high-impact contemporary residential projects and boutique hospitality interiors. Its collections lean into rich saturated colour and unexpected scale.

Villa Nova

The accessible-luxury brand in the Romo Group portfolio — beautiful, design-led fabrics and wallcoverings at a more attainable price point than Romo or Black Edition. Villa Nova is particularly strong in larger-scale residential schemes where coordinated fabric and wallcovering pairings carry across many rooms. Villa Nova's Reverie and Otaska collections are recent design-press favourites.

Mark Alexander

The Romo Group's natural fibres and textured weaves brand — linens, hemps, abacas, silks and wools in earthy palettes and tactile, hand-crafted weaves. Mark Alexander is the right brand for biophilic and quiet luxury interiors, country-house schemes and high-end residential projects where material authenticity matters more than pattern.

Kirkby Design

The Romo Group's design-collaboration brand — the studio that partners with the global design community (Eley Kishimoto, Patternity, Custhom Design and others) to produce bold graphic-pattern fabrics and wallcoverings that read like contemporary art rather than traditional textile. Kirkby Design is unique in the family for its collaboration model and its willingness to take design risks at scale.

Zinc

The Romo Group's ultra-luxury textile brand — silks, velvets, jacquards and intricate hand-finished weaves at the highest price point in the family. Zinc is named for the rare element rather than the metal, and the brand positioning sits firmly at the top end of residential and superyacht interior specification. Zinc collections are smaller, more curated, and aimed at the most discerning design studios.

The To-the-Trade Model

Like most luxury textile houses, the Romo Group sells exclusively to-the-trade — through Romo's own showrooms in London, New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Toronto and through authorised Romo dealers worldwide. Brochures are mailed free to qualified trade professionals (interior designers, architects, specifiers) and homeowners working with a designer on a project. The printed brochures are the canonical visual reference for each collection — Romo's photography, colour fidelity and print production are widely considered the benchmark in the luxury textile category, and the printed brochure carries colour and texture detail that website imagery doesn't.

How to Use the Romo Group Brochures

If you are specifying a single project: identify the brand that matches your aesthetic brief (Romo for transitional luxury; Black Edition for contemporary statement; Villa Nova for accessible coordinated schemes; Mark Alexander for natural fibres; Kirkby Design for graphic statement; Zinc for ultra-luxury), request that brand's most recent seasonal brochure, and order memo samples from your local Romo showroom or dealer based on the brochure imagery.

If you are building a long-term reference library: request brochures across all six brands. Each brand publishes one to two seasonal brochures per year (January and September are the canonical Romo Group release windows), and the brochures together form a complete library of the British luxury textile state of the art.

Romo Group History

Founded in 1902 in Nottingham, England, the Romo Group has remained family-owned through five generations — the only British luxury textile house at this scale to have done so. The company designs in-house, weaves and prints across UK and European mills, and has built each of its six brands organically rather than through acquisition (Black Edition launched in 2010, Villa Nova in 2014, Kirkby Design in 2009, Zinc in 1999, Mark Alexander in 2003). This in-house design and organic brand-building approach is what gives the Romo Group its distinct identity across six brands while sharing a single design and production culture.

Free Romo Group Catalogs by Mail

All six Romo Group brand brochures listed here are available free to qualified trade professionals and to homeowners specifying with an interior designer. The printed brochures carry the highest-quality print production in the luxury textile category — colour accuracy, paper weight and binding standards that are worth requesting in print form when you are planning a serious Romo-led interior project.