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Nina Campbell


Henrietta "Nina" Sylvia Campbell (born 9 May 1945) is an English interior designer and businesswoman, whose clients include the Duke and Duchess of York, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart and the Capital Hotel in Knightsbridge. She is known for her heart-shaped spectacles.

Nina is the daughter of Colonel John Archibald Campbell, who was educated at Eton and fought in both World Wars, and Elizabeth Popper Pearth from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her parents divorced in 1960. Her uncle was the British diplomat Ronald Ian Campbell and she is the great-great-granddaughter of Sir Guy Campbell, the first of the Campbell baronets of St Cross Mede. Nina was educated at Heathfield School, Ascot, then began her career working for Colefax & Fowler. Since going independent, she also markets her own fabric, wallpaper and tableware designs, both online and through the retailers John Lewis.

She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 16 March 1997. Nina has twice appeared as guest designer on the BBC programme DIY SOS: The Big Build, first on 18 January 2012, in Season 23, Episode 2 from Conwy and a second time on 13 November 2013, in the special episode The Big Build for Children in Need: Peterborough.


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