During a lifetime of travel and design, Barbara Drake has evolved a unique style that stresses movement, warmth, colour, balance, sustainability, and what she calls “a universal sensuality”. Born in Britain, she was taken to Kenya as a child, a move that fired her sensibility, and has strongly influenced her ideas of design. She has also lived in the US, Hong Kong and New Zealand, and traveled widely elsewhere. Her career in design began when she was “discovered” working in a King’s Road bistro in late 1960s London. She made her design debut as a stylist for fashion and advertising photographers. She subsequently became a set decorator for films and TV commercials, later moving to Los Angeles where she decorated films and designed commercials, and in the last few years designing independent feature films. In 2008 she was production designer in New Zealand, for the New Zealand TV series The Pretender, and was interviewed by New Zealand National Radio about her work and career. She has worked as a landscape and interior designer, transforming properties in Los Angeles, London, New Zealand and France. Her work has been featured in magazines in the USA and New Zealand and on US television.

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