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Sophie Robinson (designer)

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Children
  
1

Employer
  
BBC

Spouse
  
Tom Pike

Movies
  
My Beautiful Broken Brain

Sophie Robinson is smiling, with blonde hair, wearing a colorful chandelier style earrings and a multi-colored dress.

Residence
  
Brighton, East Sussex, England

Occupation
  
Interior stylist, designer, journalist, presenter

Years active
  
Since 2000 (journalism)

Known for
  
The Great Interior Design Challenge, 60 Minute Makeover, Cowboy Builders

Website
  
http://www.sophierobinson.co.uk

Education
  
The Kingsley School, University of Brighton

Similar
  
Daniel Hopwood, Kelly Hoppen, Tom Dyckhoff, Tim Davie

Sophie Robinson is a British interior stylist, designer and journalist. She is a guest judge on BBC 2's The Great Interior Design Challenge.

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Sophie Robinson is smiling with an open mouth while sitting on a colorful couch with crossed legs, with blonde hair, wearing earrings, a green nail polish, and a pink and white floral dress.

Education and career

Sophie Robinson and Daniel Hopwood are smiling with paints on their faces and hands on the set of "The Great Interior Design Challenge". Behind them is a violet-painted wall with a unique mirror as wall décor and a shelf filled with books, different vases, flowers, and a picture frame; has a beige couch with a throw pillow and a staircase and throw pillows. Sophie with blonde hair, wearing earrings and a multi-colored floral dress while Daniel is wearing eyeglasses, a gray vest over white long sleeves, and gray pants.

Robinson attended Kingsley School in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Later, she studied 3D design at Brighton University in the late 1990s, intending to become a product or furniture designer.

Sophie Robinson is smiling while her hands are on the colorful wall of an elevator, with blonde hair, wearing earrings, a multi-colored dress, and silver sandals.

After graduating in 1997, Robinson moved to London where she had a workshop at Cockpit Arts, a social enterprise scheme which supports people to grow businesses. She initially began assisting with interior design projects to help pay her rent, which led to a career working on shopping pages in magazines before her first full-time job as an in-house stylist for the BBC Good Homes magazine from 2000 to 2005. She then became a freelance interior designer for eleven years in London before moving back to Brighton where she continues to work as a freelance interior stylist, designer and journalist.

Sophie Robinson with a tight-lipped smile with hands crossed on her chest while Daniel Hopwood with a serious face with hands in his pocket in the set of "The Great Interior Design Challenge". Sophie with blonde hair, wearing a blue ring and a multi-colored dress while Daniel is wearing eyeglasses, a gray checkered coat over blue long sleeves, and gray checkered pants.

Robinson also runs interior design Mastercalss courses with fellow judge on The Great Interior Design Challenge, Daniel Hopwood and presents interior design videos on the YouTube channel Sophie Robinson.

Television

Sophie Robinson and Daniel Hopwood are smiling while talking to each other and sitting on a red couch with crossed legs in the set of "The Great Interior Design Challenge". Sophie with blonde hair, wearing a necklace and a black and white dress while Daniel is wearing eyeglasses, a wrist watch on his left hand, a black coat with a blue handkerchief over a blue long sleeves, a brown belt, and gray pants.

For five years, Robinson was an on-screen designer for ITV's 60 Minute Makeover. She has appeared on Channel 5's Cowboy Builders. In January 2014, she became one of the judges on BBC 2's The Great Interior Design Challenge. Robinson left the show as lead judge after the third series to take a "complete career break" to spend time with her son, but will be a guest judge during the fourth series. She was replaced on the show by interior designer Kelly Hoppen.

Personal life

Robinson lives in Brighton with her husband Tom Pike, who is a builder. They have one son.

At the age of 21, Robinson became a rally driver after being encouraged by her father, Adrian, to take up the sport and competed in the British Rally Championship.

References

Sophie Robinson (designer) Wikipedia
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