Students
Design education at the Inchbald School of Design aims to prepare our students to enter professional interior design or garden design practice.
Among the School’s alumni are many celebrated designers working in the garden design or interior design professions.
Some of our renowned alumni from the interior design school are: Stephen Ryan, Alix Lawson and Charlotte Robb, Jessica Brook, John McCall, Nina Campbell, Henrietta Spencer-Churchill.
Some of our renowned past students from the garden design school are: Luciano Giubbilei, Marcus Barnett and Philip Nixon.
On this page we will be featuring news from alumni and from current students.
Catherine Carpenter
Catherine Carpenter, who is currently completing the online Diploma course in interior design at Inchbald, travels regularly to Africa to research materials for her design work and has recently produced a book about African textile patterns with publisher, A. C. Black.
The collection of textile prints includes both traditional and contemporary examples. As her publisher says,
‘From exuberant and colourful patterns to elegant, flowing designs, this book celebrates the vibrancy of African prints. The introduction helpfully explains the significance of the patterns, the textiles market and the current popularity of African textiles in fashion and interiors.’
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Catherine has an MA in Architecture and Interiors from the Royal College of Art and for 10 years worked in design and construction as a project manager developing her interest in using and reusing materials in an inventive unique way. Deciding to focus more on interior projects and furniture design she researched available courses and chose the Inchbald Online diploma course:
‘…well organised with detailed reading material, experienced tutors and interesting and varied design briefs, necessary to help me create a portfolio.’
Cristina Jorge de Carvalho
www.cjc-design.com
Cristina Jorge de Carvalho, former student of interior decoration at Inchbald (1997), has won the prestigious European Hotel Awards for Best Hotel Interior for Europe and Best Hotel Interior for Portugal for the interior architecture and design project of the Altis Prime Hotel, developed by her studio, CJC – Architecture & Interior Design.
Images from Hotel Altis
The European Hotel Awards selects the world’s best professionals in the hotel industry, including the architecture and interior design area, and are part of the International Property Awards, which were established 18 years ago.
The 2011 judging panel, made up of 20 professionals, considered the quality of the submissions extremely high, giving them a difficult task in selecting the winners. However, the judges didn’t hesitate in bestowing the awards to Cristina.
Cristina stated:
‘I am extremely proud to receive these two European Interior Design awards, while competing with the best architecture studios in the world.’
Diana Yakeley
www.yakeley.com
Current President of the BIID and Inchbald graduate Diana Yakeley has been named as the Interior Design Advisor to the British Business Embassy for the duration of the Olympics and will be turning Lancaster House into a showcase for British design talent.
Lancaster House on the Mall in central London is a favourite space for government receptions. Commissioned in 1825 by the Duke of York, the house was originally a private residence. Since then it has been home to the London Museum, and then a venue for political meetings and conferences, including the G7 summits in 1984 and 1991, and shows such as the London Fashion Show in 2007. It has also featured in films such as The King’s Speech in 2010.
Joseph Nash was responsible for the staircase and grand hall completed in 1850, shown below, when the site was known as Stafford House.
This opulent interior provides a truly palatial and contrasting setting for contemporary design.
Diana Yakeley |
Staircase at Lancaster House |
Cat Howard
www.cathoward.co.uk
Cat graduated with a Diploma in Garden Design from Inchbald in July and has already designed some interesting gardens. She was commissioned by TFLS, another Inchbald graduate, to work on a Wandsworth garden, whose client brief was for a garden inspired by Ibiza – clean, whitewashed walls, wood and stone. There was also a change of level in the garden which meant that steps needed to be incorporated.
Click here to see more of her Wandsworth garden.
Emily Johnson
Emily Johnson is currently studying for her MA in Architectural Interior Design at Inchbald. She has designed and produced a collection of fine bone china lights handcrafted in the North Staffordshire Potteries:
‘… these bisque and rumbled, elegant columns of translucent china work in large multiples or as small groups. Emily refers to the classical tradition both in terms of ceramic techniques and design source, producing an eminently usable yet rare light.’
Alan Hughes
These bone lights take a traditional material and approach it in an innovative way, creating a diffuse illumination with led lights.
Emily’s collection featured prominently in the London Design Festival, showing at Jamb and appearing in the New York Times and in Elle Decoration as a must-have item for 2012.
Mark Whiting
www.contemporanium.com
Mark Whiting studied garden design with Inchbald Online from his base in Mallorca and has recently completed an exciting garden for a new hotel there, Hotel Conil.
‘I had 4 months to go from the first site visit to opening day of the hotel. The site is very exposed on the Atlantic coast and has huge extremes (it reached 42°C in August this year).
‘The initial ideas was simple, to break up the ’squareness’ of the site by exploding a geometric shape and tilting the planting beds so it almost looks as though they think in the middle of the space.
‘I wanted the design to give interesting lines from above and to repeat the fractured nature of the shape in the planting and the water feature. The construction detail was much more complicated than I imagined and I had very many sleepless nights. I was able to specify a local white marble for the raised beds and the detail was completed very well.’
Mark Whiting, January 2012.
