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Gabriel Chipperfield – Wendover
Gabriel Chipperfield is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Wendover, where he oversees the company’s strategic direction and day-to-day operations from its London office. With a background spanning business and design, he studied Business Management at King’s College London and Industrial Design at the University of the Arts London.
His early professional experience took him across Paris, Switzerland, and Japan, shaping a global perspective on design and development. He later joined David Chipperfield Architects in a business development role, before establishing his own practice, Gabriel Chipperfield Limited, in 2014.
From 2016, he worked closely with Jan-Paul on the development and delivery of a growing body of projects, a collaboration that ultimately led to the founding of Wendover in 2020. His work today reflects a balance between strategic thinking and a deep engagement with the design process.
Henry Prideaux
Henry Prideaux is a London-based interior designer known for creating layered and characterful interiors that balance classic elegance with contemporary sensibility. With a strong appreciation for colour, texture, pattern, and decorative detail, his work combines carefully curated antique and modern pieces to create spaces that feel authentic, refined, and deeply personal.
After gaining experience at several of the industry’s leading design studios, Prideaux founded Henry Prideaux Interior Design in 2014. The studio specializes in bespoke residential and boutique commercial projects, offering a highly personalized approach tailored to each client and space.
Lori Morris
Lori Morris is a Canadian interior designer and the founder of Lori Morris Design, a Toronto-based studio internationally recognized for its bold and highly expressive luxury interiors. Renowned for her “no rules” approach to design, Morris creates richly layered residential and commercial spaces defined by glamour, craftsmanship, and an avant-garde sensibility.
Her work is distinguished by dramatic compositions, bespoke detailing, and a fearless use of texture, material, and form, resulting in interiors that feel both opulent and deeply personal. Supported by an in-house team of designers, decorators, and project managers, Lori Morris Design delivers immersive spaces tailored to each client’s lifestyle while maintaining an exceptional level of refinement and artistry.
Emily Fotheringham
Emily Fotheringham is the founder and Creative Director of a Glasgow-based award-winning interior design studio established in 2012. Specializing in residential interiors and architectural design for private clients and property developers, the practice is known for creating refined and timeless spaces distinguished by a subtle sense of luxury.
Led by Fotheringham, the studio brings together a multidisciplinary team of interior designers and architects whose combined expertise informs a thoughtful and detail-oriented approach to design. Balancing creativity with functionality, the studio develops interiors that feel elegant, contemporary, and enduring.
OWL Design
Owl was established in 2014 by Sophie van Winden and Simone Gordon, who came together through their shared love of joyful, daring design after meeting at Ravensbourne University. Based in East London, the studio offers interior design, styling and consultancy across residential and commercial projects.
Owl was founded on the belief that design has the power to enhance your whole life. Our aim is to create uplifting interiors that have a lasting positive impact on the people who inhabit them every day.
Balancing form with function, we give spaces room to breathe so they work better and allow design details to shine. Drawing on a love of nature and craftsmanship, we enjoy working with fresh colour combinations, organic shapes, graphic patterns and natural materials to create interiors that instinctively feel good.
Cinzia Moretti
Cinzia Moretti is the founder and Creative Director of Moretti Interior Design, an internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning interior architecture and design studio based in London. Run by husband-and-wife team Cinzia and Michele, the studio specializes in crafting luxury interiors both in the UK and overseas. Their expertise lies in blending colour psychology, lighting design, and biophilic principles to create spaces that enhance well-being and elevate luxury living.
Sheena Murphy – Nune Design
Sheena Murphy is the founder of nune (formerly Sheep + Stone), a design studio established in 2014 with projects spanning New York, Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Norway, and the Cotswolds. After spending over a decade living in New York, Seattle, and Bangalore, she returned to London in 2018 and now works between London and Madrid.
Originally trained in business, Murphy later completed a graduate degree in interior design at Parsons School of Design in New York before working with renowned studios including Bunny Williams and INC Architecture + Design, where she contributed to private residences and hospitality projects such as 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge.
Rooted in the belief that thoughtful design contributes to wellbeing, nune creates warm, approachable spaces across residential and hospitality projects. The studio works collaboratively with clients, architects, craftspeople, artists, and makers, with a strong emphasis on human experience, sustainability, and supporting independent creative communities.
