Gavin Turner worked for 28 years for HMSO where he was Corporate Marketing Director in the late 1980s. In 1991 he started, and ran successfully for five years, a new office furniture business which placed a particular emphasis on the design of the office environment. He is a law and history graduate of Edinburgh University, a semi-professional musician, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Jeremy Myerson is a writer, editor and researcher specializing in design, architecture and the workplace. He is a visiting professor at De Montfort University, Leicester and was Founder-Editor of DesignWeek. His many books include International Interiors (Volumes 5 and 6), New Public Architecture and Gordon Russell - Designer of Furniture. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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