Suzy Hoodless
Living Etc Magazine|July 2018

The visionary designer reflects on her colourful career and the secret behind creating her classic-modern yet always design-led aesthetic

Jocelyn Warrington
Suzy Hoodless

Described as ‘Britain’s brightest tastemaker’ and ‘one of London’s leading innovators in the design field’, Suzy Hoodless began her career under the watchful eye of Tricia Guild, when she joined the creative team at Designers Guild. Following roles in luxury design and on interiors titles, she worked on ad campaigns for Louis Vuitton, Gucci, The Conran Shop, Wedgwood and Cassina Milan and art-directed Selfridges’s famous windows. She established her consultancy in 2000 and, four years later, designed the interior of the private members’ club at The Hospital in Covent Garden. Today, her projects span high-end residences from Britain to Barbados, commercial work on hotels, restaurants and corporate HQs and collaborations with design giants Osborne & Little and The Rug Company. Her most recent – and one of her most high-profile ventures to date – is the redevelopment of the iconic BBC Television Centre in London’s White City, which has been transformed into super-luxe apartments, featuring Suzy’s inimitable aesthetic. The go-to designer for the kinds of cool, contemporary and colourful interiors that are the mainstay of modern design, her interiors are a timeless, playful, perfectly curated alchemy of styles and periods. Here, she shares her inspirations and aspirations…

Yours is an impressively varied design background. Could you tell us where it all started? 

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