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25 years of experience

For over 25 years, the expertise and outstanding service offered by PS has made a real difference to design projects all around the world. Still a family business, we have established lasting relationships with some of the most sought after furnishing and lighting brands in Europe. This has helped us to build up an outstanding portfolio of contract clients, and to become an essential contribution to their achievements.

We believe that our passion for style and quality, our close bonds with key designers and our professionalism and personality can make a real difference to the success of each and every project.

Sue Grant

Founding partner

Sue founded PS Interiors in 1985. She has developed the company with her team to a leading position within the contract furniture market and in 2010 celebrated 25 years of trading.

In 2008 Sue opened the London Showroom at 567 Kings Road, London in order to showcase the breadth of it’s contemporary lighting, interior and exterior furniture collections to interior designers and the general public.

Benefiting from a wealth of experience within the hospitality / hotel industry worldwide Sue’s interest in interiors lead her to a senior management role within Herman Miller and subsequently had the entrepreneurial vision to launch PS Interiors.

Sue is currently responsible for new product acquisition / international relations and continues to shape the future of PS Interiors.

Andrew Downes

Partner

Nearly two decades experience in the contract furniture and lighting industry worldwide have instilled the virtues of delivering more than the client expects in terms of a detailed and dedicated service.

Having worked on projects worldwide from specification to installation Andrew still has the view “no project is too small”.

Rodolfo Dordoni

Architect and designer, he was born in Milan. Having designed for various companies: Artemide, Cappellini, Cassina, Minotti, Flos and Dordoni Architetti founded with architects Alessandro Acerbi and Luca Zaniboni. Deals with architectural planning and interior design, residential complexes, stores, restaurants, hotels, yachts, as well as exhibit stands of diverse commercial fields. Currently working with Kettal, he created the Bitta collection.

Patricia Urquiola

A Spanish architect based in Milan, she stands out for the original designs of objects and furniture that she produces for the best and most important international firms. The designer of some of the most emblematic pieces in the current range, she created the Maia collection, one of her most characteristic works, for Kettal. AD Architecture Design Award 2008.

Pascual Salvador

An industrial designer, architect, and interior designer.

My light bulb turns on when?
I am in front of my pencil and paper. As a creative person, I always sense things that never really develop until I sit down and work on them. You have to like it, because you spend many hours doing rough drafts.

The feature I look for in a lamp is?
A house is full of objects to go with it, and a lamp has to be like a tree in the forest, nothing strident. It needs to be capable on staying in your life silently, constantly surprising you with the way it works.

These special moments need a well-chosen lamp.
The table, the hall, the bathroom? they all provide very special moments. The lamp has to give us the light, and create an atmosphere, but with no intention of being the centre of attention.

Gabriel Teixido

Our actions modify other people’s lives, and we fail to realise that.

For example, if we leave our houses and take the car half an hour earlier, we will change the traffic flow; we will come across other cars, and who knows… Nevertheless, we can feel lonely. It has occasionally come across my mind to think about the amount of people that are necessary for me to eat a salad: olives from Jaen, tomatoes from Murcia, tuna from the North, lettuce from El Prat, radish from El Maresme, Arbeca oil, balsamic vinegar, salt from Ibiza, anchovies from La Escala, and so on. Each ingredient needs a specialist, middlemen, carriers, planes, boats, trucks (without getting into the details of the amount of pieces that a truck has, and how many people are involved in each piece?). I often picture myself in the middle of a stadium, eating a salad in front of the 80,000 people that have made this wonder possible. ?And then they say that fish is expensive?. The weird thing is that people usually look no further from their own work, and fail to realise the influences that it has on others? lives.

This is exactly what fascinates me about design, that it has a positive influence on others?There is a huge amount of stories shared with a couch, a table, a chair… Maybe some day they will in an antique shop, or in a squat house? But if it is not a brilliant idea, it will not exist, and my failure will not perpetuate. How many lamps will be lighted tonight, maybe a million? I don?t know?

I have never been interested in the kind of design that does not thrill who it is supposed to because, in the end, emotion is the only engine of a company. This is how I turned clients into friends; this is the way design works – if you lead no one to bankruptcy.

35 years dreaming objects are many years, and I believe I have been an influence in the flow of the world? just the same as YOU.

G. Teixidó 2008