Guy Goodfellow likes to sum up his practice as "twenty-first-century interior and architectural designers with traditional values". He set up his own company in 2002, having first trained as an architect, following that with eight years at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, where he became the company"s youngest ever director.
Today, he specializes in the refurbishment of large period houses, sensitively adapting them for twenty-first century living, often designing the gardens too.
Current commissions range from a "brace" of Scottish castles, country houses in Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Dartmoor, and several substantial town houses in Kensington and Belgravia.
Guy has always been fascinated by the classical proportions of stately homes and is an able draughtsman; he will regularly explain his ideas to the client by sketching away as he talks. His priority has always been space. "A room may be any colour, but if the structure is wrong, it will fail dismally" he says. He prides himself on finding quality craftsmen throughout Europe to provide anything from bespoke furniture to hand-woven fabrics and objects d'art.
Guy Goodfellow Limited handles architectural projects with a senior project manager, an established network of specialist contractors and three architectural draughtsmen. Together they ensure the design is executed to match both Guys high standards, and that to which many of such houses were first built.