Caroline Percy is an interior designer and consultant in Fine Art and Antiques and founder of Hotspur Design.

As well as designing interiors, she advises clients on the acquisition and sale of antiques, including furniture, objets d’art and paintings.  Caroline grew up surrounded by historic and important works of art which fostered an interest in the decorative arts and encouraged her to acquire a wide knowledge of historic interior styles. She has lived in Italy, France and Spain.

Caroline has worked on a number of high profile design projects for both historic and modern interiors and has appeared on various television programmes.

www.hotspurdesign.com

Oliver Gerrish has a Masters degree in Architectural History from the University of Cambridge.

He is a trustee of the Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust and helped to found their Architecture Awards. For over a decade he was actively involved with historical architectural charity, The Georgian Group, for whom he re-founded and successfully led the Young Georgians from 2002-2016. He was one of the youngest feature writers for Country Life, and has written for The Georgian magazine and reviews for House and Garden and other magazines. He has lectured nationally on subjects ranging from the masters of the Arts and Crafts to the role country houses play in the lives of younger people. He regularly organises tours of historic buildings throughout Britain for private clients and charities.

Oliver is also a Guildhall trained professional opera singer.

You can follow him on Instagram - @archmusicman

www.olivergerrish.com

Catherine has been involved in the development of Historic Decoration and runs its administration as well as working for Hotspur Design.

She has extensive experience in the fields of antiques and interior design and has worked in the financial sector.

Her interests include Georgian architecture, interior design, restoration and conservation.

Stephen Calloway is an art historian, curator and writer. From 1974-2013 he was a curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum, specialising in the fine and decorative arts of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century, with particular interest in the history of taste, collecting and interior decoration. 

He has curated many exhibitions at the V&A and elsewhere, including Aubrey Beardsley, the  centenary show in 1998, Rex Whistler: The Triumph of Fancy (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, 2006) and The Cult of Beauty, the V&A’s major exhibition on the Aesthetic Movement (2011). 

In addition to exhibition projects, he divides his time between writing, lecturing and broadcasting, and is also been called upon as a consultant for period films and the arrangement of real interiors.  His books include Twentieth Century Decoration; The Elements of Style;  Baroque, Baroque: The Culture of Excess and Traditional Style: How to Recreate the Traditional Period Home.  In addition to scholarly articles, he also writes regularly for magazines including The World of Interiors and House and Garden.

Allyson McDermott is a leading authority on conserving, recreating and hanging historic wallpapers.  She was formerly Head of Sotheby’s Conservation Studio, advisor to the National Trust and Chair of the Historic Interiors Group.  Allyson draws on many years of experience to identify pigments, papers, varnishes and processes used by the makers historic wallpapers.  Her practice offers specialist services including wallpaper design and printing, conservation and restoration of original wallpapers, investigation and research and historic interior design consultancy.  Her clients include The National Trust, Historic Royal Palaces, interior designers and architects worldwide.  Much of her work is for top properties such as Brighton Pavilion and the Palace of Westminster but she also gains great pleasure from creating decorative wall-coverings for private houses.  Her studio has an important archive of designs from 17th to 20th Century, any of which can be recreated to order.  She also has a ready-to-hang collection.