Trained as an architect, Chester Jones has been designing houses for over 50 years and is the winner of the House & Garden Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. He set up his own studio in 1990, having spent 20 or so years at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler. He is, with-out doubt, one of our best designers, creating spare, intelligent interiors that exude calm and balance. The 2014 book The Interiors of Chester Jones should be on the shelf of anyone involved in interiors; it perfectly illustrates his use of colour, line and texture, and placement of objects and art. His work is underpinned by his view that ‘the architecture of a home’s interior may be excellent, but to my way of thinking, it is through the contents and the details of people’s lives that the most memorable rooms emerge’.