HAY was founded in 2002 with the ambition to create contemporary furniture with an eye for modern living and sophisticated industrial manufacturing. That remains their ambition today. Through a commitment to the design and production of furniture and accessories with an international appeal they strive to make good design accessible to the largest possible audience. Inspired by architecture and fashion, HAY’s continued vision is to create straightforward, functional and aesthetic design in cooperation with some of the world’s most talented, curious and courageous designers.

Jordan Cluroe and Russell Whitehead are an interior design duo with big aspirations to change the face of interiors and push the boundaries of how we live in our homes. Design columnists and regular contributors to national press they are #makinglivinglovely one project at a time.

“Our shared love of design was clear from the start. We met as actors and when we joined forces our lives took a different direction. We bought our first home together, postcode ending 2LG and our friends came up with a business name that stuck. Gradually, design began to take over our lives and now we live and breathe it, believing that good design can change your life.”

Photography by Megan Taylor

SCP was founded in 1985 by Sheridan Coakley as a manufacturer and retailer of modern furniture. Inspired by the designs of the Modern Movement, Coakley decided to start selling classic and hard to find pieces, while trying his hand a producing new designs in the same spirit. Nearly three decades on, SCP remains true to its founding idea, to make and sell design products that are functional, beautiful and made to last.

In 1986, SCP exhibited for the first time at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. On show were the first ever manufactured designs by Matthew Hilton and Jasper Morrison. Since that point, SCP has continued to develop new products every year. Employing the rich talents of designers that include Terence Woodgate, Konstantin Grcic, Michael Marriott, Russell Pinch, Robin Day, Donna Wilson, Alex Hellum, Kay+Stemmer, Reiko Kaneko, Lucy Kurrein, Timorous Beasties, PearsonLloyd, Rachel Whiteread and Peter Marigold.

With a strong background in Marketing and armed with a Business Management Degree and Interior Design Diploma, Ros started working in the industry in South Africa 15 years ago. Moving to London she worked in senior positions and gained valuable experience with notable designers David Collins and Helen Green.

She set up Roselind Wilson Design in February 2010, now a successful and award winning design practice, with projects completed in the UK and South Africa. Ros believes that perfection should be a given, not something to strive for – applying this ethos to all of her project.

Creating innovative products and concepts with great designers is Vitra’s essence. They are developed in Switzerland and installed worldwide by architects, companies and private users to build inspirational spaces for living, working and shopping as well as public areas. A family business for eighty years, Vitra believes in lasting relationships with customers, employees and designers, durable products, sustainable growth and the power of good design.

Since 2000, Clare Pascoe has offered a comprehensive interior design service from her design studio in Oving, West Sussex. Specialising in her signature vintage contemporary interior design style, Clare sources and imports original Mid Century furniture from the UK and Europe, which is then sympathetically restored & reupholstered in Oving, giving a unique and highly desirable interior style. Championing British suppliers and makers, ranging from traditionally handmade sofas, fabrics woven in mills across the UK and paints innovatively recycled in West Sussex, Clare offers a sustainable interior design solution, celebrating the best of British skilled industries, without incurring the over inflated price tag usually associated with Eco Design solutions.

Rory Macpherson studied interior design at the Inchbald School in Knightsbridge, winning Principal’s Prize when he graduated and, at aged just 23, went on to work for a well-established design company designing super-high-end homes and yachts in the UK and Italy. He founded Play Associates in 2011.

Having now completed a dozen homes, offices and bars in and around London, Play’s current projects include a large family home in Primrose Hill town house and a mansion flat in Maida Vale.

Born in Paris to an American mother and Spanish father, Blanca Sanchez came to England at the age of six. It was while accompanying her mother to antiques auctions that Blanca’s love for interior design was borne. After training at the Chelsea College of Art and Design her career began when she joined an established interior design business in surrey, leaving after 11 years to start her own interior design company, Halo Design Interiors.

Halo is an award-winning business, working on prestigious residential homes on private and Royal estates with projects ranging in the value from one to over twenty million pounds.

With over 30 years’ experience in the furniture industry, and an instinctive ability to curate sublime and timelessly elegant furniture, David Brooke Consulting offers a unique sourcing, buying and project management service. A respected authority on modern, mid century and contemporary furniture, they work with some of the world’s eminent architects and interior designers and provide furniture to some of the most beautiful hotels, public spaces and private homes both in the UK and Internationally. Their longstanding relationships with the finest furniture brands enable privileged discounts and an unparalleled all inclusive and bespoke service.

&tradition is a Danish design company established in 2010 with the founding principle of tradition tied to innovation. Their unique library of furniture and lighting spans from the 1930´s to the present day and includes designs by internationally renowned designers. Its ethos brings together the best in Nordic tradition and heritage to contemporary design, reshaping, redefining and reinventing materials, techniques and forms. They have a strong respect for nature – for the raw materials it provides – and believe in design that is made to last.

Almas Shamsee is the founder and creative director at Maisha Design. She originally trained as an economist, but after almost ten years in the financial services industry she decided to pursue her passion for interior design. Almas formalised her training at the prestigious Chelsea College of Art and Design and formed Maisha Design in 2008.

Maisha (named after the Swahili word for life) Design is a London-based design practice specialising in bespoke interior and spatial design. They aim to create timeless interiors that are both functional and beautiful. Projects including private apartments and houses in London and the South of France.

Rebekah founded her design practice, Rebekah Caudwell Design, in 2009. She is based in London & NYC, with projects running simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic. Her design work is mainly residential, a primary focus being Greenwich Village Townhouses, and she has also refurbished a super yacht and a Cap d’Antibes villa.

Rebekah believes in creating something personal, warm and dramatic. She has an inherent understanding of space and how to maximize its potential. Unafraid of risks, she has a bold and exciting aesthetic which she achieves with graphic patterning and strong colour use.