Article by Fabafterfifty
Passionate about home. Alison Cork has spent her life immersed in the art of home – how it should look, feel, why it is important and most of all, how to create beautiful interiors at an affordable price.
From an early age, a creative future beckoned. “I do quite clearly remember my grandmother walking me round her home in Germany and describing all the interesting ornaments and pictures. She also had a glorious fabric cupboard, with double doors, which opened to reveal an Aladdin’s cave of texture and colour and seemingly endless bolts of fabric. It all made a profound impression upon me, and from that moment on, I was enchanted by beautiful things”.
Inspired by her creative family, who count amongst themselves painters and singers, Alison went on to study Classics at Cambridge University and graduated in the...