 | Emma Bridgewater Designs
Emma Bridgewater is the oldest daughter in a large family and her mother Char provided the first inspiration for her as a designer. Emma grew up in Oxford, where her mother's welcoming kitchen was dominated by a scrubbed pine kitchen table and a big dresser covered in colourful, mismatched china including big Victorian meat plates, pretty cups and saucers and generous jugs big enough for a bunch of flowers from the garden. An early exponent of kitchen living, with rush matting on the floor and Elizabeth David's cookbooks on the window sill, Char Stroud's taste defined relaxed, easy living. Emma's father started, built up and eventually sold, a publishing business; this gave Emma an insight into entrepreneurial life.
The early family life which inspired the Emma Bridgewater business took place round the kitchen table, and that is still the focus of Emma and Matthew's life with their four children today. |
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