George Hepplewhite George Hepplewhite George Hepplewhite (1727? – 21 June 1786) was a cabinetmaker. He is regarded as having been one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale. There are no pieces of furniture made by Hepplewhite or his firm known to exist but he gave his name to a distinctive style of light, elegant furniture that was fashionable between about 1775 and 1800 and reproductions of his designs continued through the following centuries. One characteristic that is seen in many of his designs is a shield-shaped chair back, where an
Luke Hughes (furniture designer) Luke Hughes (furniture designer) Luke Hughes (born 11 May 1957) is a furniture designer and mountaineer. He and his practice (Luke Hughes®) have designed and made furniture for over 50 Oxbridge colleges, 100 parish churches, 20 major cathedrals and 5 Royal Palaces, 2 synagogues and 900 corporate boardrooms, including Diageo Unilever, Bloomberg and Reuters. As a mountaineer, his expeditions over 25 years include exploring unmapped areas of central Tibet. Hughes was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and St Paul's School, London before gaining an open history scholarship to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1974. Hughes set up Bloomsbury Joinery, a small craft