Nigella Lawson's Living Kitchen range was inspired by her own day-to-day experience in the kitchen and is both practical and stylish. Nigella collaborated with Sebastian Conran to produce a truly outstanding collection of kitchen and cooking utensils which would add glamour to any kitchen.
Nigella Lawson is a household name, but not because of her design skills, mainly because of her skill as a cookery writer and TV presenter.
We are delighted to include the Nigella Lawson kitchenware range as part of Icône because we believe she truly is iconic in every sense of the word. Her enthusiasm for what she does is infectious, and so her kitchen designs, in collaboration with Sebastian Conran, reflect this in every way. Simply to hold the items and work with them, informs you that whoever designed the products, truly understands the demands of cooking and how important it is to combine both style as well as practicality.
Nigella Lawson is one of the UK's most influential food writers, with a growing international reputation and several bestselling books to her name as well as the Channel 4 television series, Nigella Bites.
Born in 1960, Nigella read Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford and went on to pursue a successful career in journalism, becoming Deputy Literary Editor of The Sunday Times. This was followed by a successful freelance career writing for a range of publications, from The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Times Magazine in the UK to Gourmet and Bon Appetite in the USA.
Nigella's love of cooking and food started at home, becoming part of her working life when she started the restaurant column in The Spectator and later wrote the food column for Vogue. Her first book, HOW TO EAT: The pleasures and principles of good food was published to critical acclaim in 1998. It established Nigella's relaxed attitude to food and eating and won her a wide and dedicated audience.
HOW TO EAT was the basis for Nigella's successful Channel 4 series, Nigella Bites. The second series was accompanied by a tie in book of the same name, which stayed in the bestseller lists for several months and helped to take her worldwide book sales past the 1.5 million mark.
In 2000 Nigella introduced a whole new generation to the art of baking with another bestseller, ironically titled, HOW TO BE A DOMESTIC GODDESS: Baking and the art of comfort cooking. In 2001 Nigella was voted author of the year at the British Book Awards and her Nigella Bites Christmas Special went out in December that year.
In 1992 Nigella married fellow journalist and broadcaster John Diamond. John was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1997 and died in 2001. Nigella lives in London with their two children, Cosima and Bruno.
Autumn 2002 sees a new direction for Nigella with an exciting TV series and tie-in book, FOREVER SUMMER, full of recipes to prolong that lazy, warm summer feeling through the darker days of winter.
BOOKS
- HOW TO EAT, The pleasures and principles of good food - Chatto & Windus, 1998
- HOW TO BE A DOMESTIC GODDESS, Baking and the art of comfort cooking - Chatto & Windus, 2000
- NIGELLA BITES - Chatto & Windus, 2001
- FOREVER SUMMER - Chatto & Windus, 2002
TELEVISION
- NIGELLA BITES - series 1, 2000
- NIGELLA BITES - series 2, 2001
- NIGELLA BITES CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - 2001
- FOREVER SUMMER - autumn 2002
AWARDS AND PRIZES
- British Book Awards 1998 - Illustrated Book of the Year for How To Eat
- British Book Awards 2000 - Author of the Year
- WH Smith Book Awards 2001 - How To Be A Domestic Goddess shortlisted for Lifestyle Book of the Year
- Guild of Food Writers 2001 - How To Be A Domestic Goddess - Cookery Book of the Year
- World Food Media Awards 2001 - Nigella Bites awarded GOLD LADLE for best television food show
- WH Smith Book Awards 2002 - Nigella Bites awarded Lifestyle Book of the Year