Andrew Martin, the global leader in eclectic and inventive interiors, celebrates the 26th anniversary of the Andrew Martin International Interior Designer Award.

Founded by Martin Waller in 1996, the Award was created to fill what he has termed “a great void in the recognition of extraordinary talent in interior design” and to celebrate designers on the world stage.

To mark the occasion, Martin Waller, the company’s founder, presented the award programme’s first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award to Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg, on 17th October at a private ceremony at The V&A.

Of the decision to award Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Waller says, “So much design is typically an accumulation of ideas collected, reimagined and reassembled from previous generations and iterations – a validation of Isaac Newton’s, ‘if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’