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Abigail Ahern

Designer, style maven, author and retailer

Designer, style maven and author Abigail Ahern is recognised amongst design aficionados and devotees alike for her enchanting take on interiors. She is an influential tastemaker highly acclaimed for her trend setting designs that are synonymous with glamour, eclecticism and wit.
Internationally renowned for her uncompromising taste she has redefined the visual landscape with her cleverly mixed collections and regularly contributes to television and radio programmes, magazines and newspapers. Heralded as ‘style spotter-extraordinaire’ by The Times newspaper she has established her position at the front of the design trail with her original interpretational of trends, her unique sense of style and a wholly individual approach to interiors.

Interior Designer

Abigail’s successful interior design business focuses on developing individuality through the way we design. She has a curious confident eye coupled with the ability to bring seemingly disparate objects together – nothing matches but everything makes beautiful sense. Her commissions are varied including accessorising a 42,000 square foot Grand Spa for the Ritz Carlton in Palm Beach, Florida, re- styling and branding a chain of hotels in the Middle East as well as numerous residential and commercial projects both in the UK and abroad. Abigail’s projects are frequently featured in design, fashion and lifestyle magazines.

Retailer

Abigail’s London store has been voted one of the coolest places to shop in the UK by Elle Decoration magazine - Atelier Abigail Ahern is a design-nirvana with a cunning mix of carefully resourced pieces and everyone from Robert Downey Jr to Emma Watson are fans. It’s an interior emporium filled with a quirky mix of objects of desire - eclectic, mischievous and eccentric, with no restraint on mixing cultures, periods and scales. The store has been designed to feel really now, intimate yet luxurious, seductive yet hip.

Product Designer

Abigail is also the creator of several product lines including a collection of lights given a lux, tongue in cheek twist with stockists around the world in London, Paris, New York and the Far East.

Writer

Abigail’s debut book “A Girl's Guide to Decorating” is a hip, practical style guide full of insider advice, cool and original ideas, fabulously glossy photography and clever tips for turning your space into a fabulous stylish pad - without spending a lot of money. Abigail imparts her expertise on all aspects of home decoration - from the initial planning of a space, right through to the small details that will add a touch of glamour and make it unique. Abigail encourages the reader to be brave with colour and pattern and to make a bold statement with their home. With her low cost tips and unique ideas adding instant glamour that are super easy to put into practice, Abigail proves that style has nothing to do with money.

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