Michael Priest
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“My career started at the age of 12 when I would be continually rearranging all the furniture at home and found that my great love of flowers were being brought into the house from the garden.  On one occasion, not having a suitable container to put these flowers in, I took down a valuable, hanging chandelier bowl and used this, much to the horror of my mother when she returned!

I always wanted to be an interior decorator but at that age I did not know what that meant and I was fortunate to have started in the very early days before the explosion of popularity of interior design as we know it today.  I have been privileged throughout my career to have worked for some wonderful families, some very famous but mostly discreet clients who wanted their homes decorated for their own pleasure and not for show.

 I am a classical decorator.  I am not fashionable, my style goes before me and its consistency has proved hugely successful.  I am basically an interior designer of private homes but I have, on the odd occasion, completed a few commercial projects, one being the original creation for M. Raymond Blanc of Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons in Oxfordshire.  This was nearly 20 years ago and I was very lucky to obtain worldwide exposure for which I have always been very thankful.  My work takes me to America, France, the Balearics and the Far East.  I have been extremely fortunate throughout my career in making so many wonderful friends and I am proud to say I have not lost a ‘patient’ throughout this time.”

 

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