Highly acclaimed interior designer Kit Kemp is known for her stylish, witty interiors. With her husband Tim Kemp, she owns Firmdale Hotels, a group of luxury hotels in London and New York, where the high standards of excellence and a unique townhouse style have added up to an award-winning combination. Firmdale Hotels received the Queens Award for Enterprise in 2000, 2006 and 2009. Kit has designed the interiors of each hotel in a personal way and was named Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year in 2008.

Giles Kime is the Interiors Editor of Country Life. After graduating in History of Art from Manchester University, he started his career at Condé Nast at The World of Interiors. At 26, he was appointed the youngest ever editor of the wine magazine Decanter.

He later joined Telegraph newspapers, where he launched Telegraph Home, a fifteen-page interiors section and wrote a weekly wine column. Prior to joining Country Life, he spent fourteen years as Executive Editor of Homes & Gardens magazine. He has written three books, on interior design, property, and wine.