LUKE HUGHES     E-MAIL LUKE DIRECT LINE +44 (0)207 4045995   Founder and managing director of Luke Hughes & Company Ltd., a company based in Covent Garden specialising in designing and making furniture for major institutions with sensitive architectural interors (including 54 Oxbridge colleges, 7 cathedrals, 5 royal palaces and many major city corporations).     2007 Judge for Wood Awards, sponsored by RIBA 2007 Member, Fabric Advisory Committee, Southwark Cathedral 2007 Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Carpenters 2005 Hon. Designer, Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers 2005 Trustee, Artists' Benevolent Fund 2001 - 06 Chairman of Trustees, Art Workers Guild 2001 Assistant, Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers 1996 - 98 Academic Review Board, Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture 1994 - 97 Chairman, Grants Committee of Crafts Council 1993 - 98 Appointed to Crafts Council by Secretary of State for National Heritage 1993 Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers 1992 Freeman of London 1986 Founded Luke Hughes & Company Ltd. (with a view to linking furniture craft skills with modern industrial techniques) 1980 Set up own Covent Garden workshop designing and making furniture     EDUCATION: St Paul's School and Cambridge University     ARTICLES: include those for The Economist, London Review of Books, Royal Society of Arts Journal, Architects' Journal, Crafts Magazine, Spectator, The Independent, Alpine Journal, Himalayan Journal; also substantial contributions to Encyclopedia of Wood (Quarto 1988)     LECTURES: include those for the Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Society of Arts Journal, Crafts Council, Art Workers Guild, Cambridge Architecture Faculty, Institute of Wood Science