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Quick Five Questions with Nicole Swengley – design journalist and debut novelist

24th September 2024

Gosling is excited to receive a name-check in the acknowledgments page of your debut novel, The Portrait Girl. Can you tell us what the story is about? It’s a contemporary thriller with a strong, Victorian art history thread. We first meet Freya Wetherby, a contemporary jewellery designer, as her life is falling apart. Her jewellery […]

Quick Five questions with Tania Fawcett – founder of The Vintage Entertainer

20th June 2024

Your childhood was growing up surrounded by antiques, did you always want to follow in your parent’s footsteps? Absolutely not! I was totally focused on the bright lights of London and went off to work in PR and advertising. But I always loved entertaining friends at home and was always collecting unusual antique accessories to […]

Quick five questions with Andy Sturgeon – Andy Sturgeon Design

11th June 2024

You have won Gold at Chelsea quite a few times, does any other award mean as much to you? I’ve won Best In Show at Chelsea three times and I think those awards probably mean the most to me. At Chelsea you stick your head above the parapet in a way that doesn’t happen in any […]

Quick Five Questions with Natalia Miyar Atelier – Creative Director and Founder of Natalia Miyar Atelier

23rd April 2024

At The Twenty Two, Philip Siden You studied Architecture and had your heart set on becoming a History of Art Professor. What inspired you to move towards interiors? Art History is the most wonderful subject one can study at university, gaining not only an appreciation of the decorative arts but also a deeper understanding of […]

Quick Five questions with Anya Hindmarch, Founder and CEO

15th April 2024

Tell us how you started your career in design? I started the brand when I was 18, at the very beginning designing handbags made in a small factory in Florence and selling them in London. I am from a family of entrepreneurs, so business was always in my DNA. Today, we are a global, digital […]

Quick Five Questions with Polly Cazalet – Ceramicist

26th March 2024

What inspired you to become a ceramacist? When I worked as a Director in TV documentaries I travelled to India many times and was fascinated by the traditional ‘bhar’ handmade clay cups used for drinking sweet milky tea. On one trip to Kolkata I watched a potter with a huge mound of richly coloured red […]

Quick Five questions with Volker Hermes – Artist

12th March 2024

Photo: Franz Schuier Your knowledge of portraits is amazing, did you study Art History? I studied fine arts and have always been very interested in the context of art. When I see a historical portrait, I want to know more about the artist, but also about the society that surrounded him or her. I want […]

Quick five Questions with Katharine Landale, Founder of Bold New Recruitment

12th February 2024

Tell us about the design inspiration for your home office. Do you have any top tips you would like to share? Growing up, I inherited from my mother, who was an interior designer, a love for bold colours and quirky design elements. She taught me the importance of black to ground a room, incorporating odd […]

Quick five questions with Carole Annett, Interiors editor – Country & Town House

25th January 2024

Has writing about design and being part of the magazine world influenced your own barn renovation? Writing about design has influenced me hugely and has given me a taste for beautiful things! Once you see the passion and expertise that goes into hand-block wallpaper or lost wax casting, you appreciate the price tag. I made some key purchases including […]

Quick five questions with Michael Maher, Founder of Michael Maher Designs

2nd January 2024

How did you begin your interior design career? After graduating university with a degree in economics I moved to London to a job in the art department of Saatchi & Saatchi . When I returned to the States all the advertising agencies were computerized and I was out of a job. To make some money I started interior painting. I […]

Quick five questions with Melissa Byrne, Founder of Byrne Communications.

24th November 2023

Since designing the Restoration Chateau Paint Collection for Graphenstone I have become the #colourpolice when watching period films, freeze-framing images to examine the colour. Working so closely with paint colours do you do the same? I’m not sure anyone is as forensic or knowledgeable in their historical examination of colour as you! Colour makes people […]

Quick Five questions with Anouska Hempel

2nd November 2023

Your work and design span the world, how do you manage to juggle so many different aesthetics from culture to culture ? With great difficulty! However, my team are used to going this way and that way with me, I feel that the world is getting closer and closer and the differences are less and […]

Quick five questions with Amelia Singer of Amelia’s wine

28th September 2023

WHEN DID YOU START PAIRING WINE WITH PEOPLE?  I have always believed in the power of storytelling in order to make wine relatable and even more fun. The first, most well-known example of me pairing wine to people was when I worked on Jamie Oliver’s online platform, Drinkstube, back in 2014. The first video I […]

Quick five questions with Philip Mould Director – Philip Mould & Company

13th September 2023

Your career started in very specific English portraiture. What made you broaden your interests? Any great portraitist can usually portray more than just a face. I was led by leading portrait painters like Gainsborough, Millais and Sargent into their mastery of other genres – primarily landscape. This led me onto discover Cedric Morris, a master […]

Quick five questions with Tim Heywood, Founder of Tim Heywood Designs

1st August 2023

Your Career has spanned decades during which time you’ve witnessed the birth of the ‘superyacht’ industry. How did you avoid becoming a vast conglomerate and stay so nimble? My career began 50 odd years ago when I began working for Jon Bannenberg in Chelsea. After several years, Jon would send me to meet with new […]

Quick five questions with Marisa Gutmacher, VP of Design – Samuel & Sons

21st June 2023

Metamorphosis by Samuel and Sons With such an abundance and history of passementerie in the world how do you select the historic styles to turn into such beautiful pieces? It is with a deep understanding and appreciation for the classical design language of Passementerie that I explore documentary pieces and consider how to translate them […]

The Goose Chase – The Gosling Library WOW!house Edition

24th May 2023

Tim Gosling creates a library for WOW!house 2023 based on the library in the Normandie Chateau he and his partner are currently restoring. “Every single element of the WOW!house library showcases bespoke craftsmanship. In a world with so much choice and one where we want everything instantly, it’s been a joy to turn back the […]

Quick five questions with Frederick Fischer – Managing Director Lalique UK

17th May 2023

René Lalique (1860-1945) was an iconic designer. Is it challenging to move forward with designs, whilst maintaining the DNA of the 20’s and 30’s? The beauty of design classics is they don’t go out of fashion. Lalique was an avid fan of flora and fauna and these themes continue to flow through our DNA. Besides, […]

Quick five questions with Pierre Frey – Communications Director of La Maison Pierre Frey.

17th April 2023

Pierre Frey craftsmanship is exquisite, do you have a workshop or do you use local artisans? We are very lucky to have three workshops, we believe it is the best way to protect quality and efficiency of our collections. The first one is a weaving atelier in the North of France that we have acquired […]

Quick Five Questions with Nicolò Favaretto Rubelli – CEO of the Rubelli Group

30th March 2023

Is there a unique Venetian style that weaves like a golden thread through Rubelli designs? Venice is about light reflecting on its water and its marbles, as well as surfaces which are never sharp, rounded and weathered by time and wear. This is the experience that we instil in our textiles: brightness, softness of lines […]

Quick five questions with Bruce Boucher – Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum

15th March 2023

As Director of one of the design world’s best loved museums, how do you open it up more to the world but at the same time keep its unique intimate character?    We have a responsibility to care for the fabric of the Soane, which means there is a limit to the number of people we can […]

Quick five questions with Claire German – CEO Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour

10th March 2023

How different is it running the Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour compared to being Publisher at House & Garden? My background in magazine publishing has certainly helped in my role at the Design Centre; brand building, creativity and communication skills are essential to both. They are worlds that are exciting and fast-paced: setting goals, growing audiences, maximising revenue […]

TIPS FOR CREATING A HOME OFFICE BY PHOTIS PHOTI – DESIGN DIRECTOR, GOSLING LTD

19th January 2023

Creating the ultimate home office environment is all about investing in the right pieces and designing a space that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Working with the Gosling Design team you have the opportunity to really elevate your home office to the next level. Some top tips for creating a bespoke home office: Choose […]

Quick Five Questions with Jürgen Huber – Senior Furniture Conservator at the Wallace Collection

17th January 2023

Do you think French 18th Century design is coming back into fashion? I don’t think it ever went out of fashion, although it will never be mainstream. There are many artists such as ‘Vivienne Westwood’, ‘FKA twigs’, ‘Little Simz’, just to name three, taking inspiration from the 18-19th century and in particular the Wallace Collection. […]

Quick Five Questions with Karen Howes – Founder and CEO of Taylor Howes

How much of your design practice is interwoven with property development and architecture? It’s a mix, 60% of the projects going through the studio currently are repeat clients and this is a blended mix of private clients, families and individuals and property developers and investor clients. The nature of work ebbs and flows with the […]

Serendipity and Eccentricity by Neale Albert

8th January 2023

I’m a collector. I’ve always been a collector. Especially of small things. Once I had a collection of seeds of miniature African Violets and Lionel train sets. I’m creative. I take photographs. I send a photograph of flowers with black backgrounds every day to a large group of friends. But I was never a painter […]

Quick Five Questions with Heather Prentice, Board member, Nell Gwynn House Freehold Ltd.

9th December 2022

What is the story of Nell Gwynn House? With its magnificent Art Deco facade, Nell Gwynn House was designed in 1937 as a glamorous London home for those who travelled or lived outside the capital. In addition to the sumptuous apartments, it offered a restaurant-ballroom for 250 people, a cocktail bar, a reception lounge and […]

Quick Five Questions with Charu Gandhi, Founder and Director of Elicyon

24th November 2022

What is the most unusual design brief you have had from a client? Over the years, we have had quite a range of requests that some would consider unusual, but when you are working with high-end luxury clients, nothing can ever be too out of the ordinary. Over lockdown, we noticed more of our clients […]

Quick five questions – Steve Keeling, founding partner of DKT Artworks

17th November 2022

Your work can be seen all over the world on the most extraordinary superyachts, do you also work for private domestic clients? Indeed we do. We work on residential projects within the UK and particularly in London, where residential work was the seed of DKT Artworks formation and is still an important focus for our […]

Christmas decorations and gilding the Goose by Tim Gosling.

11th November 2022

I simply adore Christmas, the glitter, the glitz, the baubles and the tinsel. It’s the perfect excuse to ‘gild the lily’. Every year, residents in my London neighbourhood enjoy the 30,000 lights I hang around Sycamore House. It’s a huge installation job, a cherry picker helps me reach the roof and fortunately my partner, Steve […]

Quick five questions – Patrick Folkes – Graphenstone director

3rd November 2022

What makes Graphenstone a genuinely eco-friendly paint and not another ‘greenwash’ paint brand? I can’t help starting with the over-used observation “If not now, then when?”. In paints, colour choice has ruled for decades. The annual ‘colour of the year’ from the giant brands keeps us all focused-on colour, as they prefer us to be. […]

Quick Five Questions – Dickie Bannenberg – Bannenberg & Rowell

28th October 2022

What are the latest yacht design trends? Although a notoriously unreliable trend spotter, I’m still able to discern that the ‘plain vanilla’ yacht is something of a threatened species. By which I mean that they have to work much harder for their money : beach clubs, shell doors, folding balconies and bulwarks – all have […]

Quick Five Questions – Sally Storey – Lighting Designer

19th October 2022

Sally Storey is one of the country’s lighting design experts. She travels all over the world designing lighting schemes for esteemed brands, individuals and corporate clients. https://www.lightingdesigninternational.com What are the latest yacht lighting design trends? The miniaturisation of even LED’s is making huge opportunities and possibilities for joinery lighting. With miniature downlights of 18 mm […]

Quick five questions – Will Christie – Founder of Christie Yachts

10th October 2022

Will has some of the most significant new construction and brokerage deals to his name and is a trusted advisor to clients in a complex but exciting superyacht market so we were excited and intrigued to ask him five industry questions. (Admiral KENSHŌ) What are the most ground-breaking recent deliveries for design and why? People […]

Quick Five Questions – Stewart Campbell – Editor-in-Chief, Boat International Media

3rd October 2022

What are the latest yacht design trends? Two hulls are better than one. What the are the most ground breaking recent deliveries for design and what makes them so? Kensho is the standout for me. The owner spent years visiting yachts, taking measurements, and ultimately building a spec that was very specifically tailored to his […]

Quick Five Questions – Andrew Winch

26th September 2022

What are the latest yacht design trends? On the interior side we are seeing an increased focus on the use of glass, often huge expanses, to bring the outside in and allow clients to feel immersed in their surroundings. This yearning for a connection with nature has also led to the increase in more refined, […]

Quick Five Questions – Simon Rowell, Creative Director of Bannenberg & Rowell Design

13th September 2022

Brave enough, twenty years ago, to slip the moorings of hotel design and set course for the sometimes eddying waters of yacht design. https://www.bannenbergandrowell.com What are the latest yacht design trends? Yachting is attracting a new clientele, both demographic and geographic. It always has. And most recently that has wafted some fresher air into the […]

Restoration Chateau Paint Collection

15th July 2022

Tim is delighted to have collaborated with sustainable paint company, Graphenstone, to launch the Restoration Chateau Paint Collection,                                     The palette of colours is inspired by Tim’s personal project, the restoration of a magnificent chateau in Normandy. Built […]

The Games Table Gathering

21st March 2022

“A games table is a place to meet, to laugh and spend time with family. It is the heartbeat of a gathering, it brings people together. Over the last two years we have spent so much more time at home we have rediscovered our passion for traditional card and board games. Time with friends has […]

Timeless Accessories by Tim Gosling

25th February 2022

French interior designer Andrée Putman said ‘for a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond and balance one another’. Tim Gosling takes that same approach when creating furniture and interiors. Balancing beautiful interiors with timeless accessories such as statement clocks and watch boxes makes a room truly sensational. […]

THE EPITOME OF CHAIR DESIGN – THE KLISMOS CHAIR

9th December 2021

The iconic Klismos chair is renowned for its historical importance, sleek lines and eye-catching design. Simply put, the Klismos chair has been a design masterpiece since its ancient Greek origins. Passionate about keeping the love of historically significant pieces of furniture alive, Tim Gosling manages to capture the soul of this exquisite chair perfectly by […]

AN EXQUISITE RUG COLLECTION BY TIM GOSLING

1st November 2021

Passionate about beautifully crafted furniture and putting a modern twist on traditional design techniques, renowned Tim Gosling has once again outdone himself with a highly anticipated collaboration with The Rug Company. These hand-knotted rugs are the perfect adornment for any space, elevating the atmosphere and providing crowning glory. The inspiration behind the designs Combining his […]

A FRESH WAVE OF DESIGN – TIM GOSLING SUPER YACHTS

22nd September 2021

Exquisite interiors and bespoke furniture should not just be for land. Innovator and design extraordinaire Tim Gosling has reinvigorated the superyacht market, pushing boundaries and creating high-quality and luxurious pieces of furniture. Boasting an impressive portfolio of clients, Gosling has created a new wave of design taking his iconic styles to the open seas.  Renowned […]

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES USED BY TIM GOSLING

25th August 2021

Elegant craftsmanship techniques such as Gilding and Straw Marquetry are not modern crafts. In fact, in 2300 B.C.E the Egyptians used gold leaf to gracefully adorn objects such as tombs and sarcophagi. Nowadays, the craftsmanship of these ancient techniques is being kept alive by designers such as Tim Gosling whose passion for unique British and […]