{"id":759,"date":"2014-06-04T06:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress3\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T14:04:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/index.php\/about-2\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section-full-width section-dark .section-full-width .section-title {   margin: 0;   padding: 0;   text-align: left;   text-transform: lowercase;   letter-spacing: -2px;   font-weight: bold;   font-size: 40px;   line-height: 1.3em; }\" style=\"background-color:#454545;\" id=\"ourcreativeteam\"><div class=\"section-boxed\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><h2 class=\"section-title\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\">Our Creative Team<\/h2><div class=\"services-wrapper services-boxed-photo cols-wrapper cols-3\"><div class=\"services-box col\"><a href=\"#\"><div class=\"img-container\"><img src=\"http:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Claire-7-368x245.jpg\" alt=\"Claire Davies-Hobbs\"\/><\/div><\/a><div class=\"services-content\"><div class=\"sc-wraper\"><h3><a href=\"#\">Claire Davies-Hobbs<\/a><\/h3><p>Our Creative Director Claire loves bringing sunlight into a property and a view of the garden as soon as you enter; she hates over-extended houses and grey upvc windows!  Claire has a BA (Hons) in Design History and spent 18 years making TV programmes for the BBC, C4 and Discovery Channels.  She has also worked as an antiques consultant and studied furniture restoration. Claire is a member of The 20th Century Society, The Georgian Group and is passionate about all things Midcentury.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"services-box col\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcu.ac.uk\/fashion-and-textiles\/about-us\/our-expertise\/our-staff?pagesize=10&#038;page=2\"><div class=\"img-container\"><img src=\"http:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/louise-368x245.jpg\" alt=\"Louise Carpenter\"\/><\/div><\/a><div class=\"services-content\"><div class=\"sc-wraper\"><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcu.ac.uk\/fashion-and-textiles\/about-us\/our-expertise\/our-staff?pagesize=10&#038;page=2\">Louise Carpenter<\/a><\/h3><p>Interiors and Textiles consultant Louise is passionate about textiles. She has a Masters in textile design (Nottingham and Birmingham City Universities) and has been working as an interior designer since 1998; for a number of years at Laura Ashley.  She is an interiors stylist (clients include The Sunday Times); a lighting designer\/maker (l-ight.co.uk); has had commissioned public art pieces and is a Fashion and Textiles lecturer - now Head of the Foundation course for the School of Fashion & Textiles at BCU.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"services-box col nomargin\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karastechcommunity.co.uk\"><div class=\"img-container\"><img src=\"http:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kara-3-368x245.jpg\" alt=\"Kara Davies-Hobbs\"\/><\/div><\/a><div class=\"services-content\"><div class=\"sc-wraper\"><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karastechcommunity.co.uk\">Kara Davies-Hobbs<\/a><\/h3><p>Our Operations Director, Kara, is our technical expert. She\u2019s passionate about helping clients use new technology; she\u2019s a SketchUp wizard, photoshop guru and helps us present our 3D visualisations. A video editor with a photography degree, Kara specialised in lifestyle programmes for TV, corporate videos, branding, and graphics. Now she designs websites and is developing a community whose aim is to learn about new technology and support each others' learning.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"services-box col nomargin\"><a href=\"#\"><div class=\"img-container\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Anna-368x245.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Emery\"\/><\/div><\/a><div class=\"services-content\"><div class=\"sc-wraper\"><h3><a href=\"#\">Anna Emery<\/a><\/h3><p>Chartered Accountant Anna is our resident finance expert. She has spent the last 20 years working in various sectors including accountancy practice, corporate finance and investment banking. Anna is a cheery soul, keeps the finance side of the business running smoothly, and is never happier than when discovering new excel functions. Anna redecorated her previous London pad in a retro 1970's style, and is about to start redesigning her current Birmingham family home.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"cta-element\"><h4 class=\"cta-small-title\">TO DISCUSS HOW WE CAN HELP YOU<\/h4><h2 class=\"cta-title\">call us 07710 317097<\/h2><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1824,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-full-custom.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/759\/revisions\/2557"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davies-hobbsdesigns.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}