COURSE DIRECTORS

Inchbald School of Design

Interior Design
7 Eaton Gate
London SW1W 9BA
020 7730 5508 interiors@inchbald.co.uk

Garden Design
32 Eccleston Square
London SW1V 1PB
020 7630 9011 gardens@inchbald.co.uk

Teaching staff are experienced designers recognised both for their creativity and professional standards. Outside lecturers are drawn from relevant practices and academic institutions

Vice Principal Alan Hughes was awarded a degree in Visual Communications at Brighton School of Art and later studied for his MA in Interior Architecture at Brighton University, completing a thesis discussing the Sensory Perception of Space.

Working as a graphic designer and illustrator, his clients included a range of magazine and publishing houses including Conde Nast,

Bloomsbury Publishing and Studio Editions. He became an Associate Director of Philip Wilson/Zwemmer and took special responsibility for retail design for Philip Wilson Associates whose list of clients included the Courtauld Galleries, Tate in the North, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Uffizi and the Prado.

Alan’s private clients range from architectural practices to landscape designers, as well as interior design practices and he has been involved in the production of retail spaces, exhibitions, books, ceramics, jewellery design and fabrics.

He taught at Middlesex University for five years, joining Inchbald in 1991. In 1999 he was appointed Director of Visual Communication.

He is specifically concerned with the theories and philosophies of contemporary Interior design, and his area of expertise lies in design principles as well as in graphics, rendering and drawing

Alan has been Vice-Principal since 2002.

Nico Springman BIDA

Director of Interior Decoration

Nicholas Springman, who is a graduate of Inchbald, initially trained as a surveyor but redirected his studies to interior design. After starting his own contracting business, he studied at the School in 1986. He subsequently worked at Meltons, an interior design studio where projects included City Livery

Halls, and both commercial and residential projects in the UK, Europe and New Zealand.

He served for five years on the Committee of the British Interior Designers Association specializing in Professional Development and Education. His particular teaching skills include the general principles of design together with planning, interior decorating, sourcing and job administration.

He has been Inchbald’s Director of Interior Decoration and Short Courses since 1997

Andrew Duff took over as Director of the Garden Design Faculty at Inchbald in 2006

Educated at the University of Greenwich, where he achieved a BA (Hons) Degree in Garden Design and a Post Graduate Diploma in Adult Education, he went on to become Assistant Landscape Architect with the White Dutton Partnership. He then joined John Brookes as his Associate Designer, and was also involved in tutoring his students.

His background as an educator started with the John Brookes Masterclasses, after which he spent five years at Merrist Wood College developing the Garden Design School’s Higher Education programmes. He has acted as external verifier for the KLC garden students and lectured on a regular basis at Barzi Casares in Buenos Aires.

Andrew works in his own practice and his commissions include gardens ranging from the transformation of a country estate in Devon, through refurbishments to an estate in Connecticut, a property in Grenada and an estancia and polo stud on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

He has also worked at the Chelsea Flower Show and his Conceptual Garden was selected for Exhibtion at the Hampton Court Flower Show in 2006. He is a regular contributor to magazines and learned journals.

Jacqueline Duncan started the Interior Design School in 1960, and followed this with the foundation of the Garden Design School in 1973

Formerly married to designer Michael Inchbald, she was his studio director from 1952 – 1963 and together they ran a successful antiques business which complemented the Inchbald design practice. Commissions encompassed both private and corporate clients from apartments to ocean liners for the Castle Line, and the QE2

From 1963 the School occupied most of her time but she continued to accept design consultancies until 1990, the last being a sixty metre private yacht.

Mrs Duncan also served as the first woman Monopolies Commissioner, as a member of the Whitfield Committee on Copyright and Design, as a member of the Visiting Committee to the Royal College of Art and as a magistrate on the South Westminster bench where she was a designated chairman.

She is a Fellow of the International Interior Designers Association (former acting President London Chapter) and Member of the British Interior Designers Association from whom she recently received an award of Merit for services to the profession.

She continues as Chairman of the Board of Inchbald, and Principal of the School

Jill Georgalakis is a qualified architect and a member of the Chartered Society of Designers for whom she acts as an assessor.

Following a successful career in shop design as senior designer and later stores architect to the

British Shoe Corporation, she started a private practice specialising in both store design and individual modern houses.

She joined the Inchbald School as Director of the ten week course in Interior Design and Decoration, and then held the position of Director of the one year Architectural Interior Design Course until 2001.

She continued to act as a Senior Tutor, Lecturer and Careers Consultant before becoming the Course Designer and Director of the new Online Interior Design & Decoration Diploma.