The designer Sue Timney has worked in Britain, Europe and Japan for over thirty years creating interior projects celebrating her own brand of exotic classicism under the TIMNEY FOWLER and SUE_TIMNEY banners. Her work ranges from commercial and residential interior architecture to product design for interiors and fashion.
She was made a Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2007, and holds the Textile Institute’s Design Medal. She was nominated for the Prince Philip Designer's Prize by the Royal College of Art and was a director of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) for 2 terms of four years and was elected President of the Institute in 2012 - 2014.
In 2002 alongside the TIMNEY FOWLER brand - the SUE_TIMNEY design practice was set up to work on specialist interior and product projects. A retrospective of Timney’s work was held in 2010 at The Fashion and Textile Museum in London together with the launch of her book Making Marks - a design biography published in New York. In 2012 the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibited her work in Postmodernism: Style & Subversion 1970-1990 and British Design 1948-2012 - Innovation in the Modern Age. That same year her work was also featured in 175 years at the Royal College of Art and featured in the book of the same name that was published by the RCA. The following year - 2013. Timney’s work was again exhibited at the V&A in the powerful Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the Eighties show. In addition that year the 100th programme of Channel 4 Grand Designs - The Water Tower in Kennington - was nominated for a BAFTA. This was a huge restoration project with sue_TIMNEY working on the interior design of this eccentric building.
2019 saw the international relaunch of Timney’s celebrated brand, the award winning interior fabric and wallpaper company - TIMNEY FOWLER
In 2021, after becoming a Council member and then Vice-Chair, Sue was elected Chair of the Chelsea Arts Club and re-elected in 2022. She was also elected Chair of Trevelyan Arts Trust in ’22 and in addition received the Merit Award from the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID). The Merit Award from the BIID celebrates excellence in interior design practice, and contribution to the development of the Institute and commitment to the broader field of design education.
West Dean College elected Sue a Fellow of the College in 2022.
More recently in 2024, as Creative Director of Wallacea Living, she received three interior design awards - one for Best Residential Interior Show Home and two for Best Senior Living Development from the International Property Awards. The Wallacea Living project, which specialises in Luxury Living in Later Life, is an ongoing project set in the UK.
In 2024, as Creative Director of Wallacea Living, she received three interior design awards. One for Best Residential Interior Show Home and two for Best Senior Living Development - from the International Property Awards. More recently, in 2025, Timney was presented with the Best Senior Living Development in Europe and Best International Senior Living Development 2024/2025 for her design work developed with Wallacea. The Wallacea Living project, which specialises in luxury living in later life, is an ongoing Senior Living project based in the United Kingdom.
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