12:31PM, Jun 22, 2008
Laurence’s personal charisma and ability to inspire people to express themselves have established him as the UK’s favourite, most easily identified interior designer.
His TV credits include ‘In Search of England’s Green and Pleasant Land’ for BBC1, ‘I Own Britain’s Best Home and Garden’ for Five, ‘Who Do You Think Your Are’ for BBC1, 'Laurence and Jackie’s Northern Exposure' for BBC Northern Ireland, ‘Holiday’, ‘RHS Chelsea Flower Show‘, ‘Changing Rooms’, ‘Design Rules’, ‘Homefront’, ‘Taste’ and ‘Fantasy Rooms’ all for the BBC.
He is also the resident interior designer on ITV1’s ‘This Morning’ on which he appears regularly to talk about design and new trends.
Last year, Laurence joined the team at Classic FM where he hosts the Sunday morning show ‘Sunday Spa’, which has an audience share of 20% (their average is 10%). He is also a regular on Radio 4, his last series was called ‘Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen’s History of Home’ and his current series, ‘Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen’s Men of Fashion’ is transmitting in April 2009.
Laurence has also starred, along with his wife Jackie and two daughters, in an eight part series ‘To The Manor Bowen’ which followed his move from London to a 16th Century house in Gloucestershire and the renovation and decoration of the house. This series was shown in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Laurence is a weekly columnist for Reveal magazine with a column named 'Laurence’s Stylish Living'. He also appears in their TV adverts which have been shown throughout the last year. He writes a monthly column for ‘BBC Homes & Antiques’ magazine and regularly guest edits House Beautiful, where he also writes a column.
As well as running his own interior design practice in Cirencester, Laurence has a number of very successful product ranges including a best-selling wallpaper range, a range of glassware, cutlery, carpets, bed linen, Christmas decorations, garden furniture, paper craft and card making products along with a whole range of products designed exclusively for Matalan.
Other projects this year have included voiceovers for the Moben Kitchen TV adverts, and featuring in BBC 4’s ‘Style on Trial.’
Andy has been a consumer electronics journalist for over 14 years, working on market-leading title What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision Ultimate Guide.
He’s had more than 3000 reviews published on a wide variety of home entertainment equipment, from amplifiers and speakers through to high-def disc players, projectors and televisions. He reviewed the very first DVD player to appear in the UK (back in 1997) and has sampled more-or-less every self-respecting piece of home cinema kit produced in the last decade. A self-confessed gadget nut and movie enthusiast, he’s got an uncomfortably large DVD collection, every high-definition source going, and a television so large his wife threatened to divorce him when he first bought it.
Aside from his main job, he’s also been published in a huge number of UK magazines, including titles as diverse as FHM, FourFourTwo, Sky Sports, Stuff and Xbox Gamer, and he regularly contributes to The Sunday Times’ InGear section. Occasionally he also finds time to play with his kids and moan about his beloved Nottingham Forest.
