British Institute of Interior Design

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Adrienne Chinn / Adrienne Chinn Design Co. Ltd

Adrienne re-traced her English father’s trans-Atlantic journey when she moved to London from Canada in the 1990s. After a varied career in magazine journalism and as a TV and film researcher, she re-trained as an interior designer at KLC School of Design and set up Adrienne Chinn Design in London in 1999, launching herself into the interior design world with a theatrical room-set inspired by “Fire” at that year’s House & Garden Fair, to the wafting notes of music from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”.

Since then, Adrienne has created unique interiors based on close collaboration with her clients. She is proud to say she doesn’t have a house style; but prefers to look at each new job afresh, and enjoys bringing talented craftspeople on board for specially commissioned items from rugs through to furniture, glassware and art. When not at her drawing board, she can often be found poking around dusty shops and barns in search of inspirational items for her clients (and herself too if truth be told).

In 2008 she published her first interior design book, “The Home Decorator’s Colour & Texture Sourcebook” internationally, which has become a useful reference book for home owners, designers and students in the UK and abroad. Adrienne enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for interior design through TV appearances, lectures and magazine articles.

Inspired by design from Montreal to Marrakech, Adrienne loves to hop on an airplane to explore new places and bring back fresh, exciting design ideas to her interior design projects. Above all she aims to create interiors which are unique to her clients, reflecting their own personal tastes, interests, collections and hobbies. You can view Adrienne’s design projects, articles and interior design directory of suppliers on www.adriennechinn.co.uk