I set up my practice over twenty-five years ago and work from Pimlico where I have a design office and studio. I also have a shop selling small antique pieces and decorative items.

During these years I have purposely kept the business on a small scale so that I can give my personal attention to my projects. I do believe that attention to detail and control of the project are two of the most important aspects in a successful contract.

Whilst most of my work has been in the residential area, I have also designed rooms at five London Clubs and worked at Barclays Bank and the Midland Bank where I designed their Brussels office. I have also worked on a chateau outside Paris, designed and decorated a large house in Berlin where I took all my workmen with me from London and a duplex apartment in Bombay.

Although I have mostly worked in a traditional style, I am now being asked by my clients’ children to help them and I am enjoying mixing the traditional with the contemporary.

My role is to give my clients ideas they have not thought of and show them fabrics and furniture they have never seen. In other words, you are selling a dream. The practical side is to translate and interpret the dreams into reality, including the inspection of building works.

In November 1998 I was included in ‘the 100 Top Decorators’ in House & Garden magazine. Four years later, in 2002, I was pleased to be included in the updated version. I have been heavily involved in our professional association, the BIDA (formerly the IDDA) and was their first woman Chairman from 1996 to 1998.