Paul Smith

Accomplishment you are most proud of? Building a business that still has a heart. First rug memory? My father was an amateur photographer and loved to experiment with tricks. One day when I arrived home from school he said “just sit on this rug and pretend that you are flying”, I said “Dad I have my homework to do”, he said “it won’t take a minute”. He had arranged a patterned rug onto some boxes and wired the corners as though it was flying. I sat cross legged with my arms in front of me. He then super imposed that photograph onto a photograph he had taken of the Regency Oriental Brighton Pavilion.