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A Room Of Your Own

I’m Max Moorhouse, and I curate people’s personal libraries for a living. Fairly recently I came to a realisation - that the stories people were telling about how they imagined their dream space and what books they would surround themselves with - said something fairly profound about who they imagined themselves to be. They were weaving their memories with their aspirations and telling me a story about who they thought they were. In A Room of Your Own, I’ll be inviting guests to explore the books

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AROYO 38 // Andrew Torrey

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/10/21

Today’s guest is interior designer Andrew Torrey. Andrew recently published a book with Rizzoli celebrating his life and journey in design. I joined him in his design studio in Manhattan to talk about what it was like to put the book together, his influences in art and design, before moving on to imagine his dream library space.If you want to learn more about his work, you can find him on Instagram @torreyllc, or buy a copy of his book - Torrey: Private Spaces: Great American Design.

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AROYO 37 // Heide Hendricks (Hendricks Churchill)

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/09/30

Today’s guest is Heide Hendricks - one half of the architecture and design studio Hendricks Churchill. I joined Heide in her beautiful renovated farmhouse which is the subject of a book published by Rizzoli in 2023 called ‘Our Way Home - Reimagining an American Farmhouse’. We talked about what goes into the Hendricks Churchill aesthetic, Rafe’s habit of turning sketches and renderings into works of art, before moving on to her own dream studio.If you want to learn more about the work of Hendricks

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AROYO 36 // Lucy Steeds

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/09/23

Today’s guest is author Lucy Steeds. Lucy won the 2025 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for her novel ’The Artist’. It’s a subtle and really atmospheric book that takes readers into the household of a great reclusive master - Tartuffe. The story unfolds through the eyes of Joseph - a young English journalist who has the unique opportunity to write about Tartuffe so long as he sits for him as a model, and through Ettie - Tartuffe’s shy, elusive niece - whose own character and brilliance slowly begin

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AROYO 35 // Abigail Horace (Casa Marcelo)

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/08/13

In this episode, I was joined by Abigail Horace, who runs her own Design Studio - Casa Marcelo. I joined her in her studio in lovely Salisbury, Connecticut, to talk about her early childhood influences - walking round New York City's great buildings with her father, and her young dream of becoming a librarian. If you want to find out more about Abigail’s work in design, you can follow her on Instagram @casamarcelo.co or look on her website: www.casamarcelo.co

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AROYO 34 // Stephen Ellcock

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/05/17

This week I’m joined by author Stephen Ellcock to talk about his creative process, and the books and works of art that have inspired his work. Stephen has a remarkable gift for finding patterns among images. Anyone who has read his books or who has visited his Instagram page knows that it’s his attention to the subtle details of artistic works that make his observations a joy to follow.I discovered through our chat that what drives Stephen is a relentless and almost obsessive curiosity to find the

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AROYO 33 // James Mackie

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/04/26

This week I’m joined by interior designer James Mackie to talk about his journey from the world of fine art and Sotheby’s to taking on a new challenge heading his own design firm. I was lucky enough to join James in his beautiful purpose-built library in Oxfordshire, where he has created his own private reading space filled with the designers, artists and houses that he loves.After talking a bit about his early years in the art world, we jump into a really interesting discussion on the country

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AROYO 32 // Duncan Campbell & Charlotte Rey

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/04/10

This week I was joined by creative duo Duncan Campbell & Charlotte Rey. Duncan & Charlotte have been working together for almost their entire careers, and now have the very enviable task of crafting and assembling some of the finest interiors around the world.As a duo, they are fun, warm and approachable - making this episode a joy to record. In this episode, we jump straight into talking about how they met in their early days working for Acne in Paris, and what made them form such a close

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AROYO 31 // Amy Dalrymple

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2025/03/06

This week I had the pleasure of talking with interior designer Amy Dalrymple – founder of Dalrymple Studios – where she works globally with clients to create beautiful interiors.In this episode we jump straight into talking about her own journey into design – the influence of growing up in a household of designers – and the inspiration she takes from the stories and advice of other creative entrepreneurs.If you’re interested in finding out more about the amazing work of Dalrymple Studios, give them

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AROYO 30 // Adémidé Udoma

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/02/20

This week I was lucky enough to visit the studio of Adémidé Udoma – who is the creative director of Artisanal One – where he and his team produce wonderful clothing and objects – as well as working collaboratively with others on styling, art and creative direction. He’s creative in the truest sense of the word – thoughtful about his influences and staying true to himself and his vision with whatever he creates.In this episode we cover what he has learned from his life in the arts so far, the vast

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AROYO 29 // Ella Berthoud

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/02/14

This week I’m joined by Bibliotherapist and artist Ella Berthoud. What started out as a conversation between Ella and her friend – novelist Susan Elderkin – turned into a career of talking to clients about their lives and prescribing reading solutions. She has written a number of books all about what she does and about the power of reading to change our lives – including The Novel Cure, and The Story Cure for children. This episode dives straight into me asking Ella exactly how she and Susan

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AROYO 28 // Carina Harford

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/01/30

This week I’m joined by interior designer Carina Harford of Harford House. I got the chance to ask Carina a bit about the aspects of her life away from design that inform her process. We delve into the experiences and the books that help her keep in touch with herself, and that have informed how she understands her clients and what they need from their space.This episode dives straight into a subject that I couldn’t wait to talk about with Carina, which is fashion, and she told me about some of the

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AROYO 27 // Ana Sampson

A Room Of Your Own ·

2025/01/16

AROYO Podcast is back this week, and I'm so delighted to announce my guest Ana SampsonAna has not only worked with some of my very favourite authors - including Joelle Taylor and Amy Jeffs - but has produced numerous poetry anthologies aimed both at adults and children.Some of her most notable works include 'She Will Soar: Bright, Brave Poems About Freedom' and more recently 'Gods And Monsters' and 'Heroes And Villains' - which are accompanied by Chris Riddell.We had such a lovely chat about the

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AROYO 26 // Susan O’Neill

A Room Of Your Own ·

2024/12/13

This week I’m joined by musician and artist Susan O’Neill. We had a wonderfully in-depth conversation about the creative process, and particularly the environments that have inspired her to compose music. We also dive deep into what it means to collect and gather objects around us, and how those objects – particularly the books that we pick up for ourselves or have gifted to us - come to tell a story about our lives.Susan recently released an album called Now In A Minute, which I’d thoroughly

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AROYO 25 // Christopher Beanland

A Room Of Your Own ·

2024/10/19

This week I talked to author, podcaster and comedian Christopher Beanland. His work spans a huge range of subjects, and seems to really reflect a life spent pursuing his own interests. He’s written a number of books exploring and celebrating favourite public spaces in the city including Lidos and City Parks, as well as two novels – Spinning Out of Control and The Wall In The Head.In this conversation, we jump straight into talking about what it means to lead a ‘creative lifestyle’ and making sure

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AROYO 24 // Joelle Taylor

A Room Of Your Own ·

2024/10/03

This week I talked to poet, novelist and performance artist Joelle Taylor. Joelle is the author several works of poetry, including C+NTO – for which she won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2021 – which is both a memorial of and a tribute to the places and people that were part of the butch culture of the 90s in London. She has most recently published a novel – The Night Alphabet – which expands horizons and narratives to tell the story of violence done to women, weaving together narratives from the past

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AROYO 23 // Dominic Bradbury

A Room Of Your Own ·

2024/09/19

This week I talked to author and journalist Dominic Bradbury, whose writing over his career has focused on showcasing and exploring the world’s most inspiring architecture and design, with his recent writing particularly focusing on the Mid-Century Modern Style. We talk about his upcoming book – The Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces , as well as his reading influences from his parents – who were both deeply bookish and who introduced him to the authors and designers from around East Anglia in

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AROYO 22 // Bettina Farack (Library of Lost Books)

A Room Of Your Own ·

2024/09/05

This week I talked to Bettina Farack who has spent the last few years telling the story of the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin. The Higher Institute was a centre for learning and a really important cultural hub for the Jewish community in Berlin before it was looted by the Nazis during the holocaust, and its books confiscated and distributed. Remarkably, in the last few years thousands of those original books have been collected from around the world, with each one not only telling the

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AROYO 21 // Meg Rees (Bunny’s Tattoos)

A Room Of Your Own ·

2024/08/28

This week I caught up with Meg Rees – who’s known as one of the most creative and expressive tattoo artists in London, and puts an element of the personal into everything that she does. People also may recognise her from her sex and relationships podcast – You’ve Gotta Be Joking – which dives deep into the trials of dating, and will be really relatable to a lot of young Londoners.I met Meg a couple of years ago when she gave me my first tattoo, and I’ve been following her work ever since. In this

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AROYO 20 // Amy Jeffs

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2024/08/23

This week I was so lucky to be joined by author, artist and academic Amy Jeffs. Amy’s work centres around the medieval world of the British Isles, and looks to capture and give in her own words the sense of wonder that she finds in the foundations of our own mythologies.Amy's writing takes you deep into the landscape - both physical and psychological - of Medieval Britain. Re-telling myths and legends from the 7th to the 14th Centuries, Amy makes these foundational stories accessible to a modern

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AROYO 19 // Ferren Gipson

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2024/08/15

This week, I was joined by author and Art Historian Ferren Gipson who’s written some amazing books including ‘Women’s Work – From Feminine Art to Feminist Art’ and The Ultimate Art Museum – where she curates 4,000 years of Art History into a dream museum that tells its story – correcting some of the wrongs of the past and highlighting overlooked pioneers.We start off going into her journey into Art History and the objects, artists and books that have inspired her throughout her life. We then go on

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