Ilse Crawford
Ilse Crawford | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ilse Catherine Crawford 1962 (age 61–62) London, U.K. |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Interior and furniture designer |
| Notable work | Bedford College,University of London |
| Website | www |
Ilse Catherine CrawfordCBERDI(born 1962) is a British interior and furniture designer.[1][2]
Early life and education[edit]
Crawford was born inLondonin 1962[1]to Jill Rendall and Malcom Crawford. Her father, Malcom, was the editor ofThe Sunday Timesand her mother, Jill, an artist and a pianist. When she was seven years old, Crawford went to live with her grandparents to alleviate the strain on her mother who had recently had triplet daughters.[1]
When Crawford was 18 years old, she had planned to attendUniversity of York,but after her mother died, decided to attendBedford Collegeto study history.[1]
Career[edit]
She worked in an architects firm and for theArchitects' Journalbefore being chosen as the launch editor ofElle Decorationand then the short-livedBaremagazine. In 1998, she left to work forDonna Karan,[3]soon moving on to designing interiors and setting up her own design studio, StudioIlse, in London in 2001.[1]
In 2000, Crawford founded the Man and Well-Being department at theDesign Academy Eindhovenin theNetherlands.In 2003, she established the interiors firm Studio Ilse, which designed theSoho Houseclub in New York,Babington House,the Electric Cinema, and the Hong Kong restaurant Duddell's, as well as pieces forGeorg JensenandIKEA.[4]She worked on the Soho House in collaboration with Harman Jablin Architects. While keeping the exterior and backbones of the 45,000-square-foot building, Crawford worked to redesign the warehouse into a funky club, with 24 hotel rooms, a restaurant, three bars, a private screening room and more. The Soho House was also featured on the television seriesSex and the City.[5]
Crawford was profiled in the first season of theNetflixdocumentary seriesAbstract: The Art of Design.[6]She was appointedMember of the Order of the British Empire(MBE) in the2014 New Year HonoursandCommander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE) in the2021 New Year Honoursfor services to design.[7]
Books[edit]
Crawford has published books including:
- Sensual Home: Liberate Your Senses and Change Your Life.Photographed byMartyn Thompson(1997, Quadrille publishing,ISBN978-1899988174)
- Home is Where the Heart is?Photographed byMartyn Thompson(2009, Quadrille publishing,ISBN978-1844006052)
- A Frame for Life: The Designs of StudioIlse(2014, Rizzoli International Publications,ISBN978-0847838578)
References[edit]
- ^abcdeRattray, Fiona (3 July 2005)."Woman of Influence".Observer Magazine.p. 50.Retrieved31 October2014.
- ^Medford, Sarah (11 August 2014)."Inside Ilse Crawford's Design Firm".Wall Street Journal.Retrieved31 October2014.
- ^Muhlke, Christine (25 September 2008)."Profile in Style: Ilse Crawford".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved26 June2016.
- ^Keeps, David A. (1 November 2014)."Designer Ilse Crawford on the Power of Dimmers and 'The Shining'".Wall Street Journal.ISSN0099-9660.Retrieved26 June2016.
- ^Barreneche, Raul (1 September 2003)."Oh so Soho: Ilse Crawford translate London's Soho House for the Meatpacking District".Archived fromthe originalon 8 November 2012.
{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^Pritchard, Owen (19 January 2017)."Netflix launches new documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design with a stellar lineup".It's Nice That.
- ^"No. 63218".The London Gazette(Supplement). 31 December 2020. p. N8.