Designer

Sameh has always had a burning passion for design, ever since he read engineering at Cambridge and was enraptured by the aesthetics of Jesus College Chapel which he could view from the window of his first year accommodation. The years he later spent as a banker in London made his yearning for his vocation as designer even stronger. In 1999 he left finance to set up the design agency known to the world as Tavola Rasa, thereby ensuring that his work and passion never again inhabit different worlds.

Sameh has undertaken large private commission projects in Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Greece. His pieces have also found homes in London, Paris, New York and Brussels and soon in Moscow.

Sameh divides his time between London, and wherever his design pieces have a new home.

Sameh is also a writer, film maker, commentator and contributor to the Daily Telegraph newspaper in London.

See his Holy Cows TV series on the Telegraph TV website here. Find Sameh's Blog at http://holycows.info/blog