The designerati podcast

Simon Hamilton is a seasoned creative whose taken his interior design talent and translated into a multifaceted career including interiors recruitment, teaching and youth mentoring at the world renowned Central St Martins to name a few.
Simon’s passion is to provide; positive examples, new opportunities, good role models and memorable experiences to create a clearer pathway into the industry for the black Asian and minority ethnic population.
Let’s hear more about Simons endeavours.
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Daphne Vassiliades is the co-founder of Rehaus, a managed market place for pre-owned, vintage designer furniture.  

Who is the mysterious greek entrepreneur who is now staking a claim in the £16Billion luxury resale furniture market with her recently launched company Rehaus?

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Yaara Gooner is an architect who in 2020 was listed in Israel’s Forbes 30 under 30.  Every year, Forbes identifies 30 of the brightest and most promising game-changers under the age of 30, across 20 different industries. Yaara is considered something of a superstar.

Her mission is to help people thrive through optimising space for people to sleep, work and to play.  Central to her design mission is their wellness and she’s currently applying her skills at Lab and Stay; flexible co working space and serviced apartments with the luxuries of a boutique hotel.

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Alan Crawford is a well revered architecture known for his innovative and progressive work particularly in the area of future living. 

Currently half of humanity live in a city which equates to almost 3.5billion of us, a figure predicted to rapidly rise to £5b by 2030. Alan is experienced in the field of this rapid urban expansion and highly regarded for his ability to maximise space for residential developments by building down. 

Welcome Alan. 

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Laura Jane Clark is a Glasgow based architect known as the one with the Midas touch on BBC 2’s: Your home made perfect.  Famous for turning problem pads into heavenly homes.

Who is the woman that first spotted potential in £20,000 of old underground toilet space in Crystal palace that she creatively transformed into affluent living space?  

What skills and personality traits are needed to blend together hundreds of hours of professional initial design meetings and from this to create a unique learning design method available for any homeowner to download at home.  

It’s time to challenge design perspectives with TV’s most loved architecture from: Your home made perfect.

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Holly Ormrod Stebbings is a concerned architect.  Concerned that 3/100 of the biggest architects’ firms are headed by women.  

She’s concerned that approx.2 of these 100 architectural practices have management teams that are more than 50% female and that men occupy 90% of the highest-ranking jobs at these companies.  

Holly is passionate about promoting diversity in the industry and knows that the lack of women in top positions in the industry is not indicative of current female interest. Holly knows that in 2016 UCAS revealed a female/male split of 49/51 which was up from 2008.

Let’s hear how Holly plans to become a role model for women entering the field to make Lady Elizabeth Wilbraham proud - the UK’s first female architect who mentored Sir Christopher Wren and infamously wasn’t allowed on building sites so had to send men with her plans.
 
Welcome Holly.

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Robert Jamison the self-proclaimed Belfast born architect, energy blazing with his ambition to demonstrate the healing benefits of architecture when combining spiritual practices.
 
Who is the architect influenced by his time travelling around India, his appearance on Game of Thrones and the energy he adopted from his yogic practices?  

What does it take to build and market a practice amongst the ‘traditionalists’ of design and to carve out a credibility within the industry around the concept that beautiful spaces may be created with the essence of an experience and the science of a feeling?
 
It’s time to challenge design perspectives with Robert Jamison.

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Gabrielle Omar is part of a new breed of influencers blending a successful architecture and interiors career with an equally successful media career. 
 
Who is this self-proclaimed curly haired, fierce female entrepreneur who challenged the establishment aka RIBA to give the sector a ‘brand overhaul’.  What does it take to combine; Spot this space; Gabrielle’s thriving architectural/interior design practice with a busy television/public speaking career? What are the personality traits Gabrielle needs to pull on in order to juggle and merge her diverse career with the needs of her children and husband?
 
It’s time to challenge design perspectives with the architect Lord Alan Sugar described as ‘a nice girl who talks a bit too fast with creative flair but a lack of business savvy.’

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Bonus Episode 2!
Live from kbb Birmingham 2022: design special

Join us live from the NEC Birmingham for part 2 of the kbb 2022 special episode! We speak to a range of interior designers during the show.

This episode includes Tony and Hayley from Day True, Kia Stanford, Lauren Sutton from Virtual Worlds and Pippa Patton.

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Maja Dimova-Handley. A self-taught, highly skilled interiors artisan in demand around the world.

Who is the woman behind the Spicy Lemon London brand? What does it take to be foreign and passionate about interiors with no formal training and to break into the prestigious London cut throat interiors industry?

Let’s start to explore and understand Maya Dimova Handley!

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