Noor Charchafchi is the founder and Director of one of the UK’s top 50 Interior Design practices, hailed a great Great British Brand and delivering exceptional projects worldwide, the company has become synonymous with luxury interiors and excellent design ethics.

Carole Annett is interiors editor at Country & Town House magazine and host of The House Guest podcast. She enjoys getting to know the people behind the brands and companies that make up the world of interiors as much as the product of their skills and creativity.

Bernie de Le Cuona is unique, being at the helm of both the design and creative direction as well as business operations. With her vision, de Le Cuona is a luxury global brand. Now with fabric and home accessory collections launched each year, the company has grown into an international enterprise with thriving showrooms in London and New York with a network of elite distributors and agents worldwide. The headquarters are in Royal Windsor.

Loomah specialise in the design and supply of luxury bespoke carpets and rugs.

Loomah use only the finest and most luxurious yarns in the manufacture of both their handmade and machine made carpets including the purest wools, silk and bamboo.Their silk carpets and rugs give the most luxurious sheen and are the ultimate in elegance and quality.

Hollie studied at Parsons School of Design Paris and started her career in print and graphic design.

She joined David Hunt as Brand Manager in 2011, becoming Creative Director in 2017 being responsible for all creative aspects fo the brand including new product design and development, art direction and exhibition design

In 2015, he approached the Managing Director of Oliver Knights and also his father and expressed his desire to market Oliver Knights using his marketing and product design skills. After that, they launched the first Oliver Knights website and brochure. Over the past 5 years, the organic growth they have experienced and feedback they have received has surpassed their expectations gradually creating a well-recognized brand well known for its outstanding quality and bespoke capabilities.

Oliver Knights is now a globally recognized manufacturer with distribution partners around the globe, working alongside the world’s best interior designers and architects on some of the most prestigious projects around the globe.

Jonathan Holmes is a tech and design entrepreneur with previous businesses in digital, e-commerce, and media. He founded LuxDeco in 2012, after being frustrated and uninspired by luxury interiors on the high street.

LuxDeco has partner relationships with over 350 brands, and also supports small artisan, giving them an opportunity to reach a global luxury audience.

Jonathan Holmes believes that LuxDeco’s success is based very much on how it uses data science, proprietary algorithms, and expert curators to aggregate and standardise product data. In doing so, this approach enables LuxDeco to offer a curated selection of products from its 350+ premium brands, with minimal inventory risk and a personalised shopping experience.

The Graphene Company owns the exclusive marketing and sales rights to the Graphenstone paints brand. The most sustainable,
healthy and high tech range, Graphenstone’s ecological coatings incorporates the oldest most trusted materials, like lime and silicate, whilst utilising graphene technology to significantly enhance performance and durability.
With zero plastic ingredients, VOC free and air-purifying, Graphenstone is well placed to assist designers, developers and private customers, to make the move to a high quality, sustainable
option in the paints sector, so in need of modernisation and change.

Sean Clayton comes from the third generation of a textile manufacturing family, and spent 10 years in the family business -Calder Weaving, learning the ropes. This was then followed by a career in fabric manufacture covering all aspects of the business through producing the yarns, to weaving, finishing and printing.   Sean ran two John Lewis textile businesses, before moving to Peter Reed where he is now Managing Director, responsible for all aspects of the company covering Finance, Production, Design and Development, Sales  and Customer Relationships. Sean travels around the world promoting and building the Peter Reed brand. Established in 1841, every piece of Peter Reed bed linen is hand made to order in Lancashire, and they hold a Royal Warrant from the Queen.  

Ann had never planned to leave her successful interior design business to head a textile manufacturing firm. But her design sense, combined with her drive to ensure that the fabrics would maintain their beauty under all conditions, led to the founding of Perennials Fabrics in 1997.

Ann works closely with her husband, overseeing design and business management for all Perennials and Sutherland, LLC brands. After several years serving as President, she was appointed CEO in 2018. As a brand co-founder, she cherishes the memory of her collaboration with design master John Hutton, who created some of her earliest patterns for Perennials and continues to inspire.

Luke Thomas is Design Director of John Cullen Lighting, heading up the team of 9 designers.

He has been a lighting designer at John Cullen since 2008 having graduated with a First Class Honours in Product Design and Innovation. Working in a team with top interior designers, architects, contractors and clients, Luke has been involved in a wide range of projects from new build Wentworth Mansions to hotel renovations through to Scottish Castles.

He believes in the power of light to transform your experience of spaces.