CAD qualified Interior/Spatial Designer with many years of commercial experience, and 3 years of academia. Resourceful, reliable, focused and passionate about all aspects of design, I am now looking for a permanent role within a creative team, after having spent a number of years running a successful design/ production company, whose creativity and innovation has attracted worldwide critical acclaim from collectors and the media

Interests

• Interiors
• Jewellery
• Products

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INTERIOR DESIGN WORK HISTORY

• NOTTING HILL HOUSING GROUP – LONDON. Design Panel Tenants Advisor - evaluating new projects from a tenant’s point- of- view. Making recommendations on: utilizing interior and exterior space, on features and finishes, on implications of new eco energy systems…
• APARTMENT REFURBISHMENT – LONDON. Complete Redesign. Structural layout changes to increase space and improve light. Highly acclaimed by visitors and property value substantially increased
• LEIGH HARMER INTERIORS – LONDON. Assistant Interior Designer - advising clients on: lay outs, lighting, furniture, fittings, soft furnishings, color schemes…Liaison with furniture manufacturers in Italy and organizing deliveries

DESIGN AND SALES – JANE CHURCHILL / COLEFAX AND FOWLER, LONDON

• Advising clients on layouts, lighting, furniture, soft furnishings ,fittings and equipment
• Producing mood /sample boards and sketches, as well as organizing shipping overseas
• Liaison with furniture and lighting manufacturers
• Assisting accessories buyer and doing window displays

VISUAL MERCHANDISER’S ASSISTANT – LOUIS VIUTTON, PARIS AND LONDON

Worked on several projects in their stores (on both window displays and interiors) using diverse skills such as: drawing plans, sketching proposals, making display objects…

ASSISTANT DESIGNER – ELLI GABRIEL INTERIORS INTERNATIONAL LTD. LONDON

• Princess Court for Harrods – London. Complete Interior Decoration of a new three bedroom flat. I was responsible for choosing furniture, soft furnishings and the liaison with the makers as well as with the client.
• Dental Reception – Paris. My job was to create finished drawings and sample board and present it to the client
• Interiors for villas – Spain. Producing detailed plans and elevations, as well as coloured perspectives, which were later displayed on walls.



HEAD DESIGNER – FREELANCE PROJECTS

• Redesign of a hairdressing salon – Leeds. Produced final technical drawings and specifications for all fittings and equipment. Project management and refurbishment (of a gutted building) from concept to completion for a new delicatessen shop, and flats above it.
• Refurbishment of a private villa – Venice. Liaison with the owners, contractors and artisans (translating from English to Italian and vice versa), locating antique furniture and retouching frescos.
• Design and decoration of several modern apartments – Zurich. Choosing furniture, wall coverings and lighting


JEWELLERY AND OBJECTS DESIGN ACHIEVMENTS

MANAGING DIRECTOR & HEAD DESIGNER – UNA ART LIMITED, LONDON
Initiated, developed and managed highly successful Jewellery /Objects Design and Production Company. Participated in exhibitions and Art Shows such as:

• “Wearing Glass” – Oxo Gallery, London 2005 and National Glass Centre, Sunderland 2006
• “Miss Peggy” – Collection commissioned and displayed by the Peggy Guggenheim Museum , Venice, 2004
• “The Best of Now” – Created and displayed a unique collection of Silicone Jewellery at Maison et Objet
Paris 2003
• “Jewels of The Millennium” – Lesley Craze Gallery, London 2000
• “Contemporary Decorative Arts” – Sotheby’s , London 1998 to 2001
• “Addressing The Century” – Hayward Gallery , London 1999
• “Victorian Fairy Paintings” – Royal Academy of Art London 1998
My designs were sold by: Harrods, Fortnum & Mason, Selfridges, Browns, Liberty, Lesley Craze Gallery, Designer’s Guild, Peggy Guggenheim…and appeared in various films and TV ads.
My work was featured in the following publications: Vogue, Elle, Sunday Times, Financial Times, The Telegraph, Paris Match, Evening Standard, Miller’s Antique Guide and others.
My client list included royal family members, politicians and show-business stars.

CAREER HISTORY

Projects 2007 – 2011
• OPEN AGE – (User Led Charity) – LONDON. Currently volunteering in their main office –various duties
• SALON DES ARTS – (Art Charity) – LONDON. Organizer, Participant and Curator of Art Exhibitions –assistant organizer of several successful shows: ”Religion, Art and War “ in aid of UNICEF, ”Challenge The Nail” with a help
from Imperial College

Una Art Ltd, London, Managing Director and Head Designer, 1993 – 2007
Jane Churchill/Colefax and Fowler, London, Design and Sales, 1991 – 1993
Louis Vuitton, Paris and London, Visual Merchandiser, 1991 – 1992
Elli Gabriel Interiors, London, Assistant Designer, 1989 – 1991
Maurice Antiques, Antiquaries Market, London, Trader, 1987–1989

Company

call4change

School

Chelsea College of Art & Design