INDUSTRY INTERVIEWS

Our interior design studio is consistently collaborating with a whole host of talent and industry experts, including skilled artisans, award-winning lighting designers, landscape architects and luxury real estate developers. Founder and Managing Director Brian Woulfe shares his conversations with industry partners from these colliding worlds of art, architecture, design, property and interiors. We’ve also invited art expert Tova Ossad to curate our Art Series, a collection of insightful conversations on the intricacies of commissioning, acquiring, transporting and taking care of art investments. In the Emerging Talent Series, guest writer Eva Ramirez discusses creativity, craft and inspiration with some of the design world’s most exciting and inspiring trailblazers.

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A Conversation With Dorian Caffot de Fawes

Dorian Caffot de Fawes is a London-based French antiques dealer who focuses on the 20th Century, typically from 1920 to 1970. Dorian’s rigorously-selected stock includes lighting, furniture, exquisite objects and pictures for both private collectors and interior designers, making sure each item combines powerful decorative qualities, great craftsmanship and sensible price.

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A Conversation With Natasha Hulse

Natasha Hulse is a bespoke Fabric Artist for Interior Design. Hulse specializes in designing, three-dimensional appliqué artworks. Once the artworks have been constructed they are then upholstered onto pieces of furniture, such as headboards and lampshades.

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A Conversation With Damien Keane

Damien Keane is one of Ireland’s top garden and landscape designers, and someone we are lucky enough to be collaborating with on an exciting residential project. In this conversation, we discuss how he started out in the world of landscape design, his top tips for elevating your outdoor space and why we’re all investing more time and money into our gardens in 2021 and beyond.

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A Conversation With Pollyanna Wilkinson

Pollyanna Wilkinson is an award-winning garden designer working across the UK and internationally. We chatted to her about design influences, work and an exciting project she is collaborating with us on.

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A Conversation With Theo James-Wright

Theo James-Wright is a high-net-worth property advisor within Savills Country Department. He has extensive knowledge of luxury rural real estate and vast experience selling some of the finest country homes, residential estates, and agricultural properties in the UK. We discuss the recent surge in interest for rural properties and the many factors to consider when making an investment purchase of this nature.

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A Conversation With Barry Burrows of Bartholomew Landscaping

Bartholomew Landscaping is London’s leading landscape design and build company working on residential and commercial estates and gardens. They have been creating unique gardens and outdoor spaces since 1989. Our interior design studio has had the great pleasure of collaborating with Bartholomew Landscaping on some fantastic projects, including a Parsons Green family home’s urban garden for which we won the ‘Residential Interior Private Residence London’ award at the UK Property Awards 2020. We sat down with Managing Director Barry Burrows to discourse the ins and outs of landscape architecture.

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A Conversation with Charlotte Wood of Wild Wood London

Charlotte Wood of bespoke florist studio Wild Wood London sits at the forefront of innovative, seasonal floristry. Charlotte started out in womenswear fashion design before combining a longstanding love of flowers with her creativity. Since then, her successful career in floristry has seen her collaborate with luxury fashion houses and create installations for London’s most iconic venues amongst countless other exciting commissions. Our interior design studio has worked with Wild Wood London several times to bring Charlotte’s knowledge and instinctive eye for both faux and living plants into our luxury interior design schemes.

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A Conversation With Simone Suss of Studio Suss

Simone Suss of London-based interior design company Studio Suss is passionate about creating sustainable interiors which tell a story, look remarkable and are planet-friendly. Driven by her desire to create positive change within the interior design industry, Simone sits on the Professional Practice Committee of the BIID (British Institute of Interior Design). She is also a Patron of the Royal Academy of Arts and was a longstanding member of the British Fashion Council Fashion Trust.

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A Conversation With Tova Ossad of Ossad Art Management

Ossad Art Management is a bespoke registrar and art transport consultancy, working with galleries, private collectors, art advisors, artists, and interior designers. We caught up with Founder Tova Ossad, who has fifteen years of experience importing and exporting art in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.

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A Conversation With Johnny Drysdale of Keystone Law

A conveyancing expert, Johnny Drysdale of Keystone Law acts for private clients on their Prime Central London sales and purchases. In our conversation, he discusses what to expect when enlisting a conveyancing expert for the purchase, sale or mortgage of high-value residential property. Johnny also shares his insights on how the events of 2020 have impacted the property market for UK and overseas buyers, and what we can expect in 2021.

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A Conversation With Aiveen Daly

Aiveen Daly is a multidisciplinary artist, upholsterer and designer who works with top interior designers and architects worldwide to provide specialist finishes and embellished surfaces.

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A Conversation with Tom Faulkner

Tom Faulkner has been designing and making striking contemporary furniture, mirrors and lighting for over twenty years. His innovative designs predominantly incorporate metal, glass, wood and stone and are handcrafted in the company’s Wiltshire workshop.

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Is Outsourcing “Back in Vogue”?

Outsourcing has always played an important role in how Designed by Woulfe operates and has allowed our luxury interior design studio to undertake projects in various countries at the same time. In the run-up to Decorex 2018, Brian reached out to three industry peers to discuss outsourcing with them.

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