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• Meet Architect Jane Duncan

This month celebrates The London Festival of Architecture. There is an amazing programme of more than 500 unique events and activities. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jane Duncan OBE ex president of the RIBA Jane Duncan is a British chartered architect, with her own practice based in Buckinghamshire. In August 2014 she was… Continue reading • Meet Architect Jane Duncan

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Meet The Maker Chantal Coady OBE. An award given for her services to chocolate making.

May 6th 2019 is the 300th Anniversary of King George I granting permission for the residents and landowners of Chelsea to use his private road, King's Rd in Chelsea. One of the current residents is Rococo Chocolates owned by Chantal Coady How long have you been a chocolatier? I don’t really consider myself to be… Continue reading Meet The Maker Chantal Coady OBE. An award given for her services to chocolate making.

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Meet the Maker Jehane Boden Spiers, Textile designer, Art licenser and Consultant

Jehane in her studio surrounded by work I know you as a textile designer and maker, Can you tell me if you went to art school and if so what did you study? I was born & bred in Brighton. I studied Textile Design at Winchester School of Art (1994 - BA Hons). How and when… Continue reading Meet the Maker Jehane Boden Spiers, Textile designer, Art licenser and Consultant

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Meet the maker Martine Camillieri

Martine Camillieri is a French installation artist, author and teacher. Her own work takes precedence over all her other activities. It is based round waste and the fact we make, and own too much stuff. She lives with her Dutch husband in what was, at one time, their art gallery. It is a large industrial… Continue reading Meet the maker Martine Camillieri

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Meet the maker Tracy Kendall designer of extraordinary original wallpapers.

  Wallpaper is barely an adequate word to describe the designs and constructions of Tracy Kendal. They range from paper manipulations, pleating and stitching  to the use of fringing, buttons, jig saw pieces to the reconfiguration of  everyday objects. She is always ahead of the pack with her ideas. She designed a fringed wallpaper in… Continue reading Meet the maker Tracy Kendall designer of extraordinary original wallpapers.