Ben Pentreath is a leading figure in the London design world.  An author, commentator and regular columnist for the Financial Times, Ben combines his architectural practice with a growing interior design studio and eponymous retail store, Ben Pentreath Ltd.

The architectural office handles projects from large-scale developments to single private houses. Ben is best known for his traditional design but the firm enjoys working in a more contemporary idiom where it is appropriate for the site or client.

Ben graduated from the University of Edinburgh, where he read History of Art & Architecture. He worked with the architectural designer Charles Morris and trained at the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, before working for Fairfax & Sammons Architects in New York.

In 2003 he returned to the UK and worked as an Architectural and Urban Designer for the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment.

In 2004 he founded his own architectural practice, Working Group Design, and in 2008 opened the sister company Ben Pentreath Ltd. In 2010 Ben he held a major exhibition at the RIBA, ‘Three Classicists‘, with George Saumarez Smith and Francis Terry.

His substantial new book, English Decoration, will be published by Ryland Peters and Small in Autumn 2012.