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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 40 // Juliet Nicolson

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2026/01/04

Today’s guest is author Juliet Nicolson. I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Juliet in her Sussex home shortly after the release of her latest work - The Book of Revelations: Women and Their Secrets From the 1950s to the Present Day. As I’ve found with all of my favourite writers - from Edward St Aubyn to Joelle Taylor - Juliet has an incredible gift for balancing a sense of playfulness and wit while delving deep into the most serious topic with insight and sensitivity. We were so deep in

AROYO 39 // Karun Thakar

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2025/11/10

Today’s guest is Karun Thakar - one of the world’s leading collectors of and experts on global textiles. Using his extraordinary collection of textiles, Karun tirelessly works to illuminate history through the lives and the hands of remarkable and often overlooked artists. As well as being a prolific writer, he is an active philanthropist, encouraging young people to learn about world history through textiles. I joined Karun in his London home to talk about his life as a collector and the importance

AROYO 38 // Andrew Torrey

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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.

AROYO 37 // Heide Hendricks (Hendricks Churchill)

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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

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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

AROYO 35 // Abigail Horace (Casa Marcelo)

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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