Stephen Woodhams
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Stephen Woodhams was one of the youngest gardeners ever to win the Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower show in 1994 for "Mr Maidment's Garden" and Stephen was also awarded Silver Medals in 1996, 1997 and 2000. In 2002 his Sanctuary garden sponsored by Merrill Lynch won him his second Gold Medal.
At the age of sixteen, Stephen achieved a place at the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley from which he graduated with honours. He went on to become Buyer Consultant at Moyses Stevens and in 1986 won a youth enterprise grant of £40 a week with which he set up his own business in his garden shed at the age of twenty two.
In 1992, he opened his first shop in Ledbury Road and fast established an enviable portfolio of clients including Max Mara, Joseph, Michel Roux, and the Hempel. He also been asked to style nine Royal Opera House Galas, the re-opening of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the décor for the Centrepoint Ball at the Natural History Museum and the styling of the inaugural dinner at the Tate Modern, Bankside.
In 1998, he opened Woodhams at One Aldwych where the hotel since won the "Best Floral Hotel in the World" by Condé Nast Traveller. In 2002, he opened another shop in Belgravia on Elizabeth Street. This second shop becomes the flagship store.
[edit] Publications
- Contemporary Gardens ISBN 1-56496-754-9
- Dried Flowers ISBN 1-84172-005-4
- Flower Palettes ISBN 0-609-60363-9
- Flower Power ISBN 1-899988-03-3
- Flowers ISBN 1-84400-134-2
