Textile Designer Alexandra Becket’s thriving Los Angeles-based business, Unico Studio, focuses on the creation of colorful one-of-a-kind prints for the home décor and fashion industry. Her textile designs are acquired by high-end fabric manufactures, interior decorators, leading retailers, home décor companies and fashion designers, including Anthropology, BCBG, Rozae Nichols, Vince Clothing, Trina Turk, Sue Wong, Chris Stone Fabrics, Pottery Barn, Target, Guess, Bebe, Quicksilver, Tadashi, Laundry by Shelli Segal and St. John.

In addition, Alexandra’s wall hangings, paintings, dividing screens, home décor accessories and custom commissions have been featured by interior decorators and at well known Los Angeles showrooms, including Denizen Design Gallery, Ashland and Hill, Statements, Pegaso and LA Moderne, as well as the renowned Molly Barnes Gallery.  Alexandra also demonstrated the art of hand-painting a multi-paneled room screen on Kitty Bartholomew’s “Your Home” show on HGTV. 

Coming this summer, Design Within Reach will celebrate Alexandra’s talents.  Her latest project, a collection of wall hangings and home décor accessories inspired by Los Angeles landscapes, shadows and architecture, will debut at Design Within Reach on Beverly Blvd. on August 21, 2008. 

Alexandra has spent a lifetime creating art reflecting the natural curiosities that have surrounded her during weekend retreats to the Santa Ynez Valley, her life in Los Angeles and her wonderfully artistic family. As the granddaughter of Welton Becket, the architect who designed some of L.A.’s most famous landmarks (Capitol Records building, the Beverly Hilton and Pan Pacific Auditorium), she is influenced by the geometry of modernism, and by the graceful curvature and sharp angles of his work. 

Alexandra’s grandmother, actress and interior decorator Louise Currie Good, taught Alexandra the finer points of design.  She nurtured Alexandra’s keen eye for color, scale and composition, greatly inspiring her creative spirit.

Alexandra combined her inspiration and creative soul with a formal education in studio art from both UC Santa Cruz and the L’Accademia Delle Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy. The result of this fusion is an artist that is dedicated to recreating the colors, patterns and forms of the beauty she observes, and sharing them with the commercial and art worlds.

Painting, Age 5

In the Studio Today

Alexandra Becket