
Sarah Bryan
ID:SR, SHEPPARD ROBSON'S INTERIOR DESIGN GROUP
With considerable experience designing and delivering a broad range of projects, Sarah’s work is underpinned by her expertise in the strategic briefing phases of projects. This ensures that the work she leads is built upon solid strategic foundations, with the finished design – whether it be a small-scale space or workplace masterplan – designed to perfectly fit the cultural aspirations and business plans of our clients, both now and into the future.
Clients that have benefited from Sarah’s strategy-led, thoughtful approach to design include major broadcasters as well as advertising and media organisation. Her award-winning designs have a track record of creating engaging and enduring places to work and socialise, with a keen eye for detail and adventurous use of materials uplifting these spaces.
Sarah is an established member of ID:SR, having joined the studio as a graduate and – after gaining wider industry expertise – returned to the practice in 2016 as an Associate.

Elliott Koehler
JPA Design
Elliott Koehler is a globally accomplished designer currently positioned as the Creative Director at the International design agency, JPA Design. The London studio is split between transportation and interior design and has worked with brands such as Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, the Taj Group, Belmond Venice Simplon Orient Express and Boom supersonic. In over 30-years since JPA Design was formed, the agency has placed a focus on future experiences driven by human centred research to craft the next generation of products that will further shape our lives. Elliott graduated from the top design school, College for Creative Studies, in Detroit MI, USA in 2010 and began his career as a diverse Product Designer at General Electric where he led the design of the Connected Home Division of CE Products as well as all appliances in the home. In 2015 Elliott moved to the UK and joined the London based studio LAYER before starting his current role at JPA in 2019. Elliott's focus as Creative Director is creating a studio that will define the way we work, live and communicate in the future, exploring the possibilities of transportation, materials and the next generation of human interactions.

Jeremy Myerson
Royal College of Art
Jeremy Myerson is a design writer and academic. He is the Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, a Visiting Fellow in the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford, and Director of the WORKTECH Academy, a global knowledge network on the future of work. A former editor of DesignWeek, Creative Review and Would Architecture, he co-founded the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the RCA in 1999 and was its director for 16 years, helping to pioneer the practice of inclusive design. He is the author of many books, including biographies of furniture designers Gordon Russell and John Makepeace.

Campbell Thompson
The Conran Shop
Campbell is Head of Furniture & Lighting for the Conran Shop. He graduated with a BSc in Product Design and since then has gained over 15 years’ experience in Home retailing working for various brands including Skandium, Harrods and Heals. Campbell joined the Conran Shop in 2016 and oversees the buying edit across furniture and lighting, working with brands on exclusive collaborations and developing Conran Shop own brand furniture and lighting with prominent UK and international designers.

Joanna Biggs
GA Design
Joanna Biggs has worked in Hospitality Design for over 20 years and is currently a Director at GA Design in London. Joanna has had the opportunity to work with some of the world’s leading 5* hotel brands delivering luxurious, unique and timeless designs. Widely applauded for their lateral approach to problem-solving, GA believes strongly in supporting and reflecting a Client’s objectives through design.

Tom Pearce
Farrah & Pearce
Tom spent time working at some of London’s top design studios before co-founding Sebastian Conran Associates in 2009. He has since designed and developed hundreds of commercially successful products from concept through to consumer. His work is interdisciplinary with projects ranging from product and branding design to furniture, transport, lighting and sculpture. His products have been exhibited at both the Design Museum in London and the Design Museum in Ghent, and his work has received numerous international awards including multiple RedDot Design Awards, a Good Design Award, German Design Award and several Design Guild Marks. He has a unique sense of thoughtful design and creativity combined with extensive and varied experience, invaluable industry insight and complex technical knowledge.

Lucy Kurrein
Lucy Kurrein Ltd
Lucy Kurrein is a furniture designer specialising in upholstery. Born in 1985, she grew up in Yorkshire in the north of England. She took her art foundation course at Leeds College of Art before moving to Buckinghamshire to study furniture design. After graduating, Lucy worked for furniture designer Matthew Hilton then design consultancy PearsonLloyd, before founding her own studio in 2013. She was quickly recognised as Newcomer of the Year 2014 at the Mixology Awards and Young Designer of the Year 2015 by Homes and Gardens. Her work has been published in Architectural Digest, Wallpaper*, OnOffice, Elle Decoration, The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal and Le Monde, and exhibited in London, Milan, Paris, New York and Hong Kong. She teaches design at Kingston University and has spoken at Nottingham Trent University, Central Saint Martins, Rycotewood Furniture Centre, Bucks University and the Building Crafts College. Clients include SCP, Capdell, Joined + Jointed, Molinari, Offecct, and Heal’s. She divides her time between Paris and London, where she has a studio in a community of creative businesses housed in shipping containers overlooking the River Thames.
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