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George Clarke is an architect, writer and lecturer and one of the most successful property TV presenters on UK television. After three successful series of Build A New Life for Five, George became the face of architecture at Channel 4 with The Home Show and Restoration Man. George was born and raised in Sunderland and studied architecture at the University of Newcastle and University College London before starting his own practice clarke:desai.

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Steve Elliott is the spokesperson for Fun on the Floor and the UK Managing Director of Associated Weavers. With 20 years experience in the carpet industry, Steve has a wealth of knowledge and provides a voice for Fun on the Floor and their activities for 2009.

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Andrea Maflin is a successful interior designer, artist, author and TV designer. Her friendly and innovative approach to interior decoration has led to many commissions worldwide. She has written for a wide range of interiors magazines and news papers alike such as Sunday Times, UKTV, GMTV and This Morning.
Andrea has always has a passion for carpets demonstrated through her work both on screen and off!

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Danielle Proud grew up in the 1970s and 1980s in America where her craft-obsessed mother taught her patchwork, needlework and stenciling - basically anything that would keep her out of trouble!
Her work started to create ripples in the design world - and has been featured in Vogue, Sunday Times, Style Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Marie Claire, In Style, Living Etc and the Guardian.
She is the first interior designer to be supported by Topshop, who commissioned her to design a range of craft kits for making lampshades, cushion covers and racy cross stitch samplers to launch Topshop Home.
Danielle's first book, House Proud: Hip Craft for the Modern Homemakeris available from Bloomsbury now. House Proud redefines craft and arms modern homemakers with the skills to create their own sassy designer furnishing. Every project involves recycling existing furniture, favourite old clothes or bits and bobs from around the house.

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"When carpeting is used effectively it forges a relationship between a room's furniture, walls, lighting and window treatments which pulls everything together to create a sense of balance and order.
Carpet is the simplest, most striking single purchase you can make to completely update, refresh and transform any room in your home!
The key interior looks for the coming seasons are best achieved by introducing carpet to room schemes. Carpets in strong plain colours, large scale patterns, wonderful textures and intricate geometrics tick the trend box for 2009 and 2010"

Victoria Redshaw founded Scarlet Opus, a company dedicated to providing Trend Forecasting and Design services to the Interiors sector. She is the Industry Specialist Lecturer of Trend Forecasting at The University of Huddersfield in the UK where she tutors final year BSc, MSc and BA Degree students.

Victoria also writes trend articles for a number of trade journals and newspapers including monthly trend features for 'Carpet & Flooring Review'. She also presents trend seminars and workshops at industry shows and conventions including 'Interiors Birmingham' and 'National Floor Show - Harrogate'.

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