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Amber Butchart has spent her career uncovering the stories that
are hidden in the clothes we wear. She's a fashion historian, author, curator and broadcaster whose work explores the rich connections between fashion, history, politics and identity.
You may know her as the history consultant from The Great British Sewing Bee and the documentary A Stitch in Time, her books, or the exhibitions she’s curated for The Design Museum, The Fashion and Textile Museum and the British Textile Biennial.
What makes Amber's work so compelling is that she doesn't just tell us what
people wore—she reveals what clothing and textiles can tell us about the lives of the people themselves and the societies they lived in.
In this episode Amber reveals her Three Rooms, which reflect her
love of vintage design, especially the British seaside aesthetic, but what really comes through is her joy and enthusiasm for colour, kitsch and fun,
and how this playfulness is very much a part of her home, her rooms, and her everyday life right now.
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Artist Cindy Konits joins Three Rooms to discuss memory, identity and the spaces that shape our lives. Working across photography, video and interactive media, Cindy's internationally acclaimed practice explores family history, personal archives and the ways we construct meaning from the past.
We talk about her latest project This Room Will Survive Me, a hauntingly beautiful body of work and book created using an obsolete instant camera and expired film. The resulting images feel dreamlike and ephemeral, and explore the very nature of rooms and identity.
Together, we explore how architecture helps us understand where we belong, and why certain spaces remain with us long after we've left them. Thoughtful, moving and surprisingly philosophical, this is a conversation about home, memory and what it means to leave a trace behind.
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Rebecca Thornton is the bestselling author of a series of acclaimed psychological thrillers that delve into the complexities of friendship, power, ambition and deception, with her fourth novel, Faculty of Liars, out in August. She’s a former journalist who has reported from conflict zones and international news stories, and brings a sharp eye for human behaviour and hidden motivations to her fiction.
As Rebecca shares her Three Rooms, she reveals how even thinking about them have uncovered aspects of her life and personality that she’d not considered, and how these spaces are significant markers in how her outlook on life has unfolded.
During the conversation, Rebecca explains her former condition, aphantasia, and how moving through the world with this very rare way of interpreting it has affected her reaction to home and space.
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Sasha Lord is the founder of Lords Fragrance House, an independent British
fragrance brand inspired by travel, memory and the powerful connection between scent, emotion and place.
Before launching Lords, Sasha spent more than a decade working in the
fragrance and cosmetics industry, helping brands develop scents, products and immersive fragrance experiences. Through her work with The Aroma Company, she gained a unique understanding of how scent can shape the way we feel, remember and connect with places.
The idea for Lords Fragrance House grew from a desire to do things
differently. Drawing on her extensive travels and a lifelong love of colour and
creativity, Sasha has created a collection of home fragrances inspired by
landscapes, places and moments that stay with us for a lifetime.
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Nathaniel Parker is one of Britain’s most distinguished and versatile actors, with a career spanning stage, screen and radio. He's become known for bringing depth, intelligence and charisma to every role he inhabits — from Shakespeare and period drama to gripping detective stories and contemporary film.
He was the original Inspector Lynley from The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and he's starred in acclaimed productions including The Crown, Merlin, Stardust and worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
Nathaniel shares the Three Rooms that have shaped his life, and they all have one thing in common - creativity and imagination.
See him perform T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland at Wilton's Music Hall 11-13 June
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Interior designer, upholsterer, broadcaster and author Micaela Sharp candidly shares her story through the three most significant rooms in her life, revealing how her childhood living room, school dormitory, and holiday bedroom have shaped her. In her poignant reflections, she reveals how these safe and cosy spaces have influenced not just her interiors style, but her whole outlook on life.
See Micaela's book Modern Upholstery: Discover the Joy of Transforming Your Furniture
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Architect, designer broadcaster and author Laura Jane Clark shares her personal journey through the three most significant rooms in her life, revealing how her childhood bedroom, first flat, and current bedroom reflect her evolving design philosophy and love for colour ( especially red) space, and self-expression.
Laura Jane Clark's Book: The Handbook of Home Design
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Few figures in British music have shaped the public image of artists quite like Alan Edwards. As one of the most influential music PRs of the past four decades, he’s been the force behind some of the industry’s most iconic names, including Prince, David Bowie and The Spice Girls, navigating fame, controversy and cultural moments with a rare mix of instinct and strategy.
In this episode of Three Rooms, Alan reflects on the spaces that have defined him. From the Covent Garden office where careers were built to a 'big birthday' party venue, he shares candid insights and stories.
This episode takes us behind-the-scenes of music and popular culture, and is Alan's uniquely thoughtful look at what it means to manage image in an age where everyone is their own publicist.
See more from Alan here and discover his book I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll.
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Singer and author Shirlie Kemp is a true 80s icon as part of Wham! and duo Pepsi and Shirlie, and is the heart of one of our most beloved families, married to Martin Kemp with two children Roman and Harley.
She has a palpable and very strong sense of empathy, and feels the energy and ambience of any space. In this episode she reflects on the origins of her creativity, why home is so important to her and how she feels a connection to the past.
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Author, journalist, stylist and Interiors Director of YOU magazine Nicole Gray, shares her Three Rooms.
Nicole reflects on the spaces that have defined different chapters of her life and career. From the emotional pull of her south London childhood home where she forged her love of colour to a dining room that left a lasting impact, Nicole shares her love of home and interiors, and how her own taste and style has developed through years at the forefront of interiors publishing.
See more from Nicole here and discover her book The Reimagined Home about the joy of sustainable spaces.
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Social worker, designer and interiors writer Emily Wheeler is the founder of charity Furnishing Futures, started at her kitchen table in 2019 to create healing homes for women and their children fleeing domestic abuse. They are often placed in completely empty social housing, or live in furniture poverty.
She partners with leading specialist domestic abuse services and grassroots organisations, as well as some of the UK’s best known interiors brands, stylists and designers who donate products for the homes she creates.
Last year she launched The Atrium, a creative hub and events space in east London.
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Designer, broadcaster and author Banjo Beale shares the three most significant rooms from his life with host, homes journalist and magazine editor Loma-Ann Marks.
Banjo first hit our screens in 2022 as the winner of Interior Design Masters and his storied, salvage style, was quickly in-demand.
Originally from Australia, until recently Banjo lived on the Isle of Mull with husband Ro and their dog Grampa. Now, they reside on the nearby Isle of Ulva and are renovating Ulva House, as documented on the BBC's recent Banjo and Ro's Grand Island Hotel . Sign up here to keep up-to-date with their progress
Banjo has written two books: Wild Isle Style and A Place in Scotland, and presents BAFTA-winning series Designing the Hebrides and Scotland’s
Home of the Year.
His three rooms are a beautiful reflection of his story, and reflect how his taste and style originated. As he says: “I’m a magpie for the gloriously odd.”
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Designer, author and vintage queen Pearl Lowe takes us through her three most memorable rooms: the kitchen in her former Frome home, the bedroom in her first flat shared with Danny Goffey and the bathroom in their second Camden home.
All created with her signature glamorous style and endless creativity.
Pearl's latest book Faded Glamour in the City is a journey through beautiful urban homes, including her own London flat that she has recently bought and renovated.
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Interiors icon Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen shares his most significant Three Rooms and so much more.
From rejecting the modernists ( "they were total misogynists") beige anoraks and tupperware to the swagger of having an old person's railcard, the fever dream that is Teatro Olimpico di Vincenza and replying to social media haters from his bathtub, Laurence reveals his story. The reason behind his interiors flamboyance, why he's never really judging and how numbers are the root of all problems.
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Laurence's kitchen designs with Quintessential Kitchens are timeless and elegant. See more of his design here.
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Welcome to Three Rooms, the homes podcast hosted by Reclaim magazine editor Loma-Ann Marks. In each episode her guest shares the three most significant rooms that have shaped their life.
