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Inchbald School Of Design
The Inchbald School of Design was founded in 1960 by Jacqueline Ann Duncan (then Jacqueline Inchbald, married to and working with designer Michael Inchbald), in the family home at 10 Milner Street. Description The impetus for this project arose as a result of a London visit by a group of American designers under the aegis of the American Institute of Designers (AID) on their way to Venice. Prominent among them was the New York designer William Pahlmann, who expressed surprise that England did not have either a formalised professional body or any specific educational centre for interior design training. Jacqueline researched the possibility of a school and this coincided with a burgeoning interest in interiors in the climate of resuscitation in the post war years. This interest was fostered by the media in the form of domestic magazines, images from abroad particularly America and the founding of the English ''House & Garden'' magazine under the editorship of Anthony Hunt. The ...
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Jacqueline Ann Duncan
Jacqueline Ann Duncan (née Pentney, born 16 December 1931) is a British educator, and the founder of the Inchbald School of Design (when she was Jacqueline Inchbald). Early life She was born Jacqueline Ann Pentney on 16 December 1931, daughter of Sonia Pentney, She was educated at Convent of the Sacred Heart, Brighton, and the House of Citizenship, London. Honours She was appointed an OBE in 2013. Personal life In 1955, she married Michael Inchbald Michael John Chantrey Inchbald (8 March 1920 - 23 February 2013) was a British architectural and interior designer. Michael Inchbald was born on 8 March 1920, the son of Geoffrey H. E. Inchbald and Rosemary Ilbert, daughter of Arthur Ilbert and n ..., they had one son and one daughter, and divorced in 1964. On 5 June 1974, she married Brigadier Peter Trevenen Thwaites (1926-1991), younger son of Lt. Col. N. G. Thwaites, who died in 1991. In 1994, she married Colonel Andrew Tobin Warwick Duncan, LVO, OBE. References External li ...
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Michael Inchbald
Michael John Chantrey Inchbald (8 March 1920 - 23 February 2013) was a British architectural and interior designer. Michael Inchbald was born on 8 March 1920, the son of Geoffrey H. E. Inchbald and Rosemary Ilbert, daughter of Arthur Ilbert and niece of Sir Courtenay Ilbert. He was educated at Sherborne School, followed by studying architecture at the Architectural Association in London. From 1945, he lived with his uncle horologist Courtenay Adrian Ilbert Courtenay Adrian Ilbert (1888–1956), was a British civil engineer interested in horology, and a collector of watches. Ilbert lived for a time at 10 Milner Street, Chelsea, London, the old ground floor drawing room once housed the Ilbert Colle ... at his home, Stanley House, 10 Milner Street, Chelsea, and took over the house when his uncle died in 1956. In 1955, he married Jacqueline Ann Bromley, they had one son and one daughter and divorced in 1964. In 1964, he married Eunice Haymes, and they divorced in 1970. Refer ...
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10 Milner Street
10 Milner Street, also known as Stanley House is a Grade II listed house in Milner Street, Chelsea, London, England. It is a double-fronted house in an Italianate style, and was built by the Chelsea speculator John Todd in 1855, for his own occupation. It was later home to Sir Courtenay Ilbert. From 1945, his nephew, the interior designer Michael Inchbald lived there, and continued to do so after Ibert's death. In 1960, the Inchbald School of Design was founded in the basement by his wife Jacqueline Ann Duncan Jacqueline Ann Duncan (née Pentney, born 16 December 1931) is a British educator, and the founder of the Inchbald School of Design (when she was Jacqueline Inchbald). Early life She was born Jacqueline Ann Pentney on 16 December 1931, daughter o ... (then Jacqueline Inchbald). The Inchbald School was founded in the old ground floor drawing room, which once housed the Ilbert Collection of clocks, watches, marine chronometers and sundials. It has been Grade II list ...
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William Pahlmann
William Carroll Pahlmann (December 12, 1900 – November 6, 1987) was a New York-based, mid-twentieth-century interior designer who popularized the eclectic style of design. The eclectic style borrowed decorative elements from different time periods and countries and often used bold color combinations, varying textures, and a mixture of antique and modern furnishings. Pahlmann employed eclectic design principles to accommodate his customers’ personal taste preferences and stressed the importance of comfort, functionality, and adaptability in his work. Early life William Pahlmann was born on December 12, 1900 in Pleasant Mound, Illinois. His father died when he was six, and the family relocated to San Antonio, Texas, where his mother ran a boardinghouse. At the age of ten, he began to draw freehand and showed an interest in flower-arranging at the local Baptist Church. After completing high school, he accepted a job as a traveling salesman selling sewer pipe. While he was on th ...
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Interior Design
Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordinates, and manages such enhancement projects. Interior design is a multifaceted profession that includes conceptual development, space planning, site inspections, programming, research, communicating with the stakeholders of a project, construction management, and execution of the design. History and current terms In the past, interiors were put together instinctively as a part of the process of building.Pile, J., 2003, Interior Design, 3rd edn, Pearson, New Jersey, USA The profession of interior design has been a consequence of the development of society and the complex architecture that has resulted from the development of industrial processes. The pursuit of effective use of space, user well-being and functional design has contributed ...
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House & Garden (magazine)
''House & Garden'' is an American shelter magazine published by Condé Nast Publications that focusses on interior design, entertaining, and gardening. Its US edition ceased in 1993, and after an unsuccessful relaunch was closed again in 2007. International editions of the magazine are still published in the United Kingdom (first published in 1947) and South Africa. A Greek edition was launched in November 2007. History The magazine was launched in 1901 as a journal devoted to architecture. Its founding editors were Herbert C. Wise, Wilson Eyre, and Frank Miles Day, all Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, architects. The magazine became part of Condé Montrose Nast's publishing empire when he bought an interest in it in 1911; he became its sole owner in 1915. Nast transformed it into a magazine about interior design Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people usi ...
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Grosvenor Group
Grosvenor Group Limited is an internationally diversified property group, which traces its origins to 1677 and has its headquarters in London, England. It has a global reach, now in 62 international cities, with offices in 14 of them, operated on behalf of its owners, the Duke of Westminster and his family. It has four regional development and investment businesses (Britain and Ireland, the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific) and a portfolio of indirect investments. Its sectors include residential, office, retail, industrial, along with hotels. Grosvenor Estate The history of the Grosvenor Estate begins in 1677, with the marriage of the heiress Mary Davies to Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet (1655–1700). Mary had inherited the manor of Ebury, 500 acres of land north of the Thames to the west of the City of London. This area remained largely untouched by the Grosvenors until the 1720s, when they developed the northern part, now known as Mayfair, around Grosvenor Square. A few ...
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Nina Campbell
Henrietta "Nina" Sylvia Campbell (born 9 May 1945) is an English interior designer and businesswoman, whose clients include the Duke and Duchess of York, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart and the Capital Hotel in Knightsbridge. She is known for her heart-shaped spectacles. Early years Nina is the daughter of Colonel John Archibald Campbell, who was educated at Eton and fought in both World Wars, and Elizabeth Popper Pearth from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her parents divorced in 1960. Her uncle was the British diplomat Ronald Ian Campbell and she is the great-great-granddaughter of Sir Guy Campbell, the first of the Campbell baronets of St Cross Mede. Nina was educated at Heathfield School, Ascot, then began her career working for Colefax & Fowler. Since going independent, she also markets her own fabric, wallpaper and tableware designs, both online and through the retailers John Lewis. TV and radio She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 16 M ...
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Kelly Hoppen
Kelly Elaine Hoppen (born 28 July 1959) is a South African-born British interior designer, author, and proprietor of Kelly Hoppen Interiors. From 2013 to 2015, she was a "Dragon" on BBC Two's ''Dragons' Den''. Family Kelly Hoppen was born on 28 July 1959 in Cape Town, South Africa. Her mother Stephanie Hoppen (née Shub) is of Estonian-Jewish ancestry and her father Seymour Hoppen who was a member of the Weinstock family from Dublin, is of Irish-Jewish ancestry. When Hoppen was two, her family relocated to London. Hoppen briefly returned to South Africa when her father died. During her return to South Africa, she played in a rock band and was arrested and imprisoned for violating apartheid laws by mixing with black musicians. Career Hoppen began her career at 16 when she quit school and took on her first project designing a family friend's kitchen. Her next big project came in the way of designing the racing driver Damien Hunt’s house which led her to work with other rac ...
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Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill
Lady Henrietta Mary Spencer-Churchill (born 7 October 1958) is an English interior decorator and founder of Woodstock Designs. Her name has been more than once included in a list of 100 Leading Interior Designers by '' House & Garden'' magazine. She is the author of several books on the subject, as well as ''Blenheim and the Churchill Family: A Personal Portrait'' (2005), an historical and anecdotal account of her family home, Blenheim Palace. Lady Henrietta is the youngest child and only daughter of the 11th Duke of Marlborough by his first wife Susan Mary, daughter of Michael Hornby. She is the great-granddaughter of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the step-sister of Christina Onassis through her father's second marriage to Tina Onassis, former wife of Aristotle Onassis Aristotle Socrates Onassis (, ; el, Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, Aristotélis Onásis, ; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975), was a Greek-Argentinian shipping magnate who amassed the world's largest private ...
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Chelsea, London
Chelsea is an affluent area in west London, England, due south-west of Charing Cross by approximately 2.5 miles. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames and for postal purposes is part of the south-western postal area. Chelsea historically formed a manor and parish in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex, which became the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea in 1900. It merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington, forming the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea upon the creation of Greater London in 1965. The exclusivity of Chelsea as a result of its high property prices historically resulted in the coining of the term "Sloane Ranger" in the 1970s to describe some of its residents, and some of those of nearby areas. Chelsea is home to one of the largest communities of Americans living outside the United States, with 6.53% of Chelsea residents having been born in the U.S. History Early history The word ''Chelsea'' (also formerly ''Chelceth'', ''Chelchith' ...
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University Of Wales
The University of Wales (Welsh language, Welsh: ''Prifysgol Cymru'') is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff – the university was the first university established in Wales, one of the four countries in the United Kingdom. The university was, prior to the break up of the federation, the second largest university in the UK. A federal university similar to the University of London, the University of Wales was in charge of examining students, while its colleges were in charge of teaching. Historically, the University of Wales was the only university in Wales until the establishment of the University of Glamorgan in 1992. Former colleges under the University of Wales included most of the now independent universities in Wales: Aberystwyth University (formerly University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Bangor University (formerly University of Wales, Bangor), ...
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