Lucy Moore
Lucy Moore is a British author and historian known for her engaging biographies and historical narratives, often focusing on influential women and cultural movements. Her works include Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France, Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament, and Nijinsky: A Life of Genius and Madness.
Gavin Parkinson
Professor Gavin Parkinson joined The Courtauld teaching staff as a Lecturer in 2008 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2014 then Professor in 2019. Gavin lectures and writes on European and American art, culture and criticism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written many books, including Enchanted Ground: André Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-de-Siècle Painting (Bloomsbury 2018); Futures of Surrealism: Myth, Science Fiction and Fantastic Art in France 1936-1969 (Yale University Press 2015); Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology (Yale University Press 2008)
Sam de Terán
Sam de Terán is known for her fashion, interior design with her most recent work being the remodel of the family’s 5-star hotel, Cobblers Cove in Barbados.
Great British Chefs
Founded in 2010, Great British Chefs is the fastest growing food website in the UK and is the go-to destination for foodies in search of recipes, cooking guides, the chef and restaurant profiles. With 10,000 recipes available, the website draws in over 30 million page views per annum and has engagement across all social media channels of over 1 million.
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Kate Holt
Kate Holt is a British photojournalist, who works primarily across Africa and the Middle East to gather humanitarian and development stories. she began her career at the BBC at Breakfast News and BBC News 24. she relocated to Kabul and covered the conflict in Afghanistan, and then in 2012 returned to the UK and set up the Arete Communications Agency.
Andrew Montgomery
Andrew Montgomery is one of the finest lifestyle photographers in the world. His latest work can be seen in Gill Meller’s Outside, Kate Humble’s Homecooked and the extraordinary Petersham Nurseries. Andrew created Montgomery Press which is a sub-division of Clearview Books.
Clare Foster
Clare Foster has been a garden writer for nearly 20 years and is the gardens editor for Conde Nast’s House & Garden magazine. She is also the author of The Flower Garden published by Laurence King in 2019.
Clive Nichols
Clive Nichols is a garden and flower photographer with over 30 years of experience. His work has appeared in hundreds of books as well as in countless magazines, calendars and brochures. Clive regularly gives master classes in flower and garden photography for The Royal Horticultural Society.
Sarah Barclay
Sarah Barclay is a journalist and author, having written for The Mail on Sunday for over 16 years as well as for Vogue, Tatler, The Sunday Times, Saturday Express, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Madame Figaro on a variety of subjects. She is also a keen gardener herself.
Francis Hamel
Francis Hamel has lived as an artist in residence at Rousham for over 25 years. Having trained at the Ruskin School of Art whilst at Magdalen College, Oxford, he has won international acclaim for his work.
Jane Churchill & Emily Astor
Jane Churchill is an interior designer whose work has made her a household name both at home and abroad. With more than 40 years in the business, Jane Churchill has a deep knowledge of the classic decorating tradition. Emily Astor is a photographer, an author, and Nancy Astor’s granddaughter.
Mikkel Karstad
Mikkel Karstad is now the Head Chef at Christianborg, the Danish Parliament, food writer and former gastronomic advisor to Claus Meyer (co-founder of NOMA). Mikkel trained at Tante Claire in London, Bagatelle in Paris and Kommandant in Norway. He is also the food stylist behind several Danish cookbooks – including the giant Almanak by Claus Meyer – and contributes regularly to several Danish magazines.
Franz Wesler-Möst
Franz Weiser-Möst has been the Musical Director of the Cleveland Orchestra, Ohio for over 19 years and guest conducts with the Vienna Philharmonic on a regular basis. For 20 years, he has has shaped an unmistakable sound culture as Musical Director of the Cleveland Orchestra. Under his leadership, the orchestra has been repeatedly praised by international critics for its musical excellence.
Jo Hambro
Jo Hambro started her career at British Vogue in 1977 and, after spells at Country Life and The Independent newspaper as a Fashion Assistant and Style Editor, in 1992 she became the Creative Fashion Director of British GQ, a position she held until her resignation in 2015. Jo is now an active Stylist and Creative Director in the film, music, retail, confectionary, media and fashion industries.
Charles & Luli Orchard
Charles Orchard’s company iBal Designs specialises in Asian furniture design and manufacture. He has published ten books on luxury interior style. Luli Orchard was the Fashion Editor at the Sunday Telegraph Magazine before moving to Bali with Charles and their family. Recently she has worked for Tatler, Conde Nast Traveller and Porter magazine.
Stuart Ovenden
Stuart Ovenden is a freelance food photographer, stylist and writer whose clients include Conde Nast Traveller, Delicious, Olive and Waitrose. Prior to this he spent seven years on the team at BBC Good Food Magazine, the UK’s biggest selling food magazine. Stuart is passionate about growing, foraging and preparing food from his garden orchard in the countryside.
Abigail Edwards
Abigail began her career studying fine art at Wimbledon School of Art in London and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After a brief stint assisting in galleries in New York, a passion for interiors took over and she returned to London to style shoots and write about interiors for a diverse range of editorial and commercial clients; such as The White Company, Harrods, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, House & Garden and Country Living amongst many others.
Robbie Honey
Robbie was born and brought up in Harare, Zimbabwe and studied horticulture, interior design and photography in England, Holland, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He trained in event floristry in London, under Ming Veevers Carter, and started his own company counting Hermes, Dior and Valentino amongst his many clients. Robbie lectures and holds masterclasses in floristry at the flower schools in London, Beijing, Seoul, New York and Virginia, USA.
Chris Halsey and Wilhelmine van Aerssen
Chris Halsey has spent over 40 years working with fabric and textiles, developing product ranges for Heals, Habitat, The Conran Shop and most notably Designer’s Guild.
Wilhelmine van Aerssen is an interior design agent for world famous brands including Designer’s Guild, Ralph Lauren, Nina Campbell and Nobilis. Concern for the lack of technical knowledge in traditional and modern fabric production, was the motivation for writing the book.
Mirjam Leslie-Pringle
Mirjam Leslie-Pringle has worked for over 15 years as a lifestyle journalist and photographer in Los Angeles, New York and the Netherlands. Married to an English film director, the family made their home in Ibiza, and inspired by the gorgeous produce available she began her blog VeggieVeryMuch to showcase accessible vegetarian recipes. The blog is wild success, accumulating over 100,000 followers.
Suzanne Loggere
Suzanne Loggere is an internationally renowned interior decorator, working with and agenting some of the biggest names in design, including Colefax & Fowler, Mulberry Home, Etro, Elitis, Rubelli and Larsen.
Anjula Devi
Born and brought up in Southall in the early 1970s, by the age of ten, Anjula Devi was grinding and blending spices to perfection, taught by her father who was a brilliant and inspirational cook. Anjula has made Indian food her career, passing on the wealth of knowledge accumulated with her father. She has founded her own cooking school, demonstrates at BBC Good Food Shows, has been appointed Brand Ambassador for the world’s largest Indian food company TRS Foods and created her own brand – ‘Route 207’.
Shane Connolly
Shane Connolly rocketed to global prominence when, as floral designer to HRH The Prince of Wales he designed the flowers for the 2011 wedding of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge. Since then he has won a second Royal Warrant, this time to HM The Queen. He has run Shane Connolly Flowers for over 20 years, which has a sophisticated, discreet and international clientele. He lectures and holds regular masterclasses in the USA, Japan and London.
Spencer Fung
Spencer is a naturalist architect and artist. He trained at Cambridge University and the AA, and founded Spencer Fung Architects in 1990. Projects include world-class hotels, spas, restaurants, retail spaces, work studios, barn conversions, homes, offices, yachts, private jets. He champions crafts in architecture, working with master artisans to combine ancient wisdom and local knowledge with cutting-edge technology. Spencer designs elegant, memorable, contemporary buildings with soul.
Christina Ong
Christina Ong is one of the world s most successful Singaporean entrepreneurs, known for her investments in fashion and luxury hotel resorts, having set up Club 21, the Metropolitan Hotels and COMO Shambhala worldwide. Growing up, she watched her grandmother cook, and picked up a passion for food and the pleasure it brings to the family table. To those experiences Christina Ong then added numerous trips to Italy where she started to appreciate how simple really good food could be.
Paul A Young
Paul Young is a groundbreaking and inspirational chocolatier who is at the forefront of the British chocolate scene. Paul’s passion for his craft and his cutting edge creativity have won him numerous awards and led to him being ranked amongst the world’s best chocolatiers. Paul has a reputation as an incredibly creative flavour alchemist who often develops flavour combinations that are original, experimental, sometimes daring, yet always perfectly balanced. He is the only chocolatier in London working in a truly artisan way.
Ali bin Thalith
Ali bin Thalith was born in Dubai. In the Seventies, it was made up of a series of villages, and Jumeirah Beach was yards from the house where he grew up. Inspired by Jacques Cousteau, he learned to dive and operate his first camera and realised he could combine these twin passions and trained in France and London as a marine photographer and documentary filmmaker. As the official photographer for Prince Hamdan al Maktoum, he was asked by the Prince to set up Dubai’s first photography award, HIPA, becoming Secretary General and overseeing its global development.
Alex Michaelis and Tim Boyd
Alex Michaelis and Tim Boyd founded Michaelis Boyd in 1996. Their work remains fresh and interesting producing simple, elegant architecture with an environmental emphasis. Alex and Tim met whilst working in the same practice and prior to doing so, had worked for Richard Rogers & Partners, Colquhoun and Wickham and Associates. It was working for Nick Jones’s Soho House Group that they first made their mark, and with Babington House and the Electric Cinema in Portobello Road in particular.
Frank Camorra & Richard Cornish
Frank Camorra is chef and owner of the acclaimed MoVida restaurants in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. He is Spanish by birth and this is his fifth, critically acclaimed book. Richard Cornish is senior features writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age’s Good Food lift-outs, and is the writer and creater of its popular ‘Brain Food’ column. He has co-written four previous books on Spanish food with Frank Camorra.
David Eustace
David Eustace is a Scottish photographer and director who is known for his fashion, celebrity and art photography. In June 2015 David was appointed Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University, the institution where he studied his art, and in September he was inducted into the Scottish Fashion Award Hall of Fame in recognition for his work. He has served as a creative advisor to both the private and public sector.
Harriet Anstruther
Harriet Anstruther is a leading interior designer whose work has featured in the “New York Times T Magazine” amongst many others. With a background living in London and New York, and over twenty five years of design experience working in textiles, film, fashion and the arts, she launched my interior design business HAS in 2012.
David Yarrow
David Yarrow started to show an interest in photography in his mid-teens. In 1986, while at Edinburgh University, he was named Young Scottish Photographer of the Year and later was sent to cover the World Cup. His picture of Maradona holding the Cup is still published on a regular basis. He then embarked on a career in asset management which he successfully continues today, and is now a Getty Affiliated photographer – his shark predation image was printed in over 70 newspapers and magazines across the world.
Lars Boesgaard
Lars Boesgaard was born in Denmark and is Managing Director for Lindhardt & Ringhof, one of Copenhagens leading lifestyle book publishers. His love of Provence, inspired by spending his childhood summers there, led him to acquire and renovate a house of his own in a small mountain village. His years of accumulated knowledge and passion for the subject make him a formidable guide and expert.
Zara Colchester and Charlotte Sainsbury-Plaice
Zara Colchester and Charlotte Sainsbury-Plaice met when Zara tried to buy one of Charlotte's horses. In the end Charlotte couldn't bear to part with it and Zara's long journey across country looked like a dead end. Instead, the two became great friends and in 2002 they set up Stately Rides, bespoke holidays on romantic rides staying in private homes.
Claire Lloyd
Claire Lloyd was born in Australia, and moved to London in her early twenties after two and a half years as an art director at Australian Vogue. In London she was the art director for World of Interiors and the launch of the British edition of W Magazine, and from there built a stellar career in magazines, film, video, books and property. She now lives in Greece with her partner and lots of animals, but travels regularly to Sydney and London where she owns yet more properties!
