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Pelican House

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Pelican House is a design-led rug brand creating statement pieces for hotels and homes across the world, connecting its clients with artisans via the power of leading design. Working closely with designers, hospitality partners and conscious consumers, the studio creates uniquely personal collections that bring together culture, craft and escapism, offering rugs with both aesthetic impact and enduring meaning.

The Hoxton Dublin with rug by Pelican House

The Hoxton Dublin | Image credit: Pelican House

At the heart of Pelican House is a belief in harmonising ethnicity and heritage with modernity and practicality to achieve a statement aesthetic. Its collections – found across hotels, hospitality spaces and large-scale residential installations – are typified by joyful vibrancy, accented with timeless splashes of character and colour. Each project is shaped through close collaboration, as the Pelican House team works alongside clients to co-curate bespoke styles that feel distinctive, meaningful and enduring.

This approach is guided by the studio’s belief that design can be a lasting force for positive change. Pelican House was founded by Isabella Valenzia, an art historian based between Mumbai and London, with a clear focus on timeless quality, ethical practice and considered design. She is joined by Creative Director, India Holmes, formerly of de Gournay, and a celebrated artisan in her own right. Together, they lead a global team united by an innate sense of luxury, a vocation for enduring quality and a deep respect for craft.

Operating from a Camden head office with outposts across India, Nepal and Turkey, Pelican House positions itself as a creative mediator between its clients and artisanal weaving communities. The studio works with hundreds of artisans, viewing them as artists faithful to their traditions and sustained by a generational commitment to excellence. Using traditional and ancestral techniques blended with contemporary ideas, Pelican House co-creates products steeped in culture, place and the stories its artisan partners wish to tell.

Ethical partnerships sit at the core of this process. Pelican House takes an uncompromising approach to supplier selection, looking beyond price to establish meaningful, long-term relationships at source. By partnering with organisations such as Label STEP, the studio ensures the highest ethical standards are upheld and that growth is distributed fairly. Ongoing investment in on-the-ground relationships, combined with a trusted global logistics network, enables Pelican House to tell these stories reliably and at scale.

The Hoxton Dublin bedroom with rug by Pelican House

The Hoxton Dublin | Image credit: Pelican House

Creating personal experiences is central to the brand’s ethos. From artisans and internal teams to designers, clients and wider communities, every Pelican House project is a deeply intimate journey. By facilitating access to its global network of makers, the studio enables connections that bring deeper meaning to interiors and the lives they touch.

For the hospitality sector, Pelican House offers a dedicated trade and hospitality programme, providing bespoke solutions tailored to the identity, use and budget of each project. With a deep respect for tradition and an eye for innovation, Pelican House continues to work towards a world where its statement designs truly are a force for good.

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Fun fact: I’m usually the person friends rely on to organise trips, schedules, and group plans.

Workhighlights: Successfully coordinating events from planning through to delivery and seeing everything come together on the day.

Fun fact: I’m a keen cyclist and will happily bore people with copious amounts of cycling chat. My top cycling experience (so far) would have to be riding in the spectacular mountains of Crete.

Work highlights: Charles joined Forum Events in 2022. With a background in publishing, editorial media and events, Charles brings a wealth of experience to his role as Senior Production Manager. Having being involved with SPACE from the outset, he is excited to see the brand grow and develop.

Fun fact: People tell Sienna she gives off Bridget Jones vibes, and she loves to bake, always making sure there are shortbreads floating around the office

Work highlights: Sienna joined Forum Events & Media Group while studying Communications and Media, starting in the sales team where she managed and helped launch the first the PA Life Leading Venues of London SHOWCASE, where she built relationships with luxury venues across the capital. Drawn to the stories behind these spaces, she naturally transitioned into the editorial team, creating social media and editorial content. Upon graduating in June 2026, she is excited to be joining as Assistant Editor for Hotel Designs and SPACE.

Fun fact: When not working, Jess can usually be found tending to her kitchen garden in the Sussex countryside or foraging for herbs in the nearby woods. A keen grower, she recently studied a RHS Level 2 Diploma in the Principles of Horticulture during her spare time.

Work highlights: Jess joined SPACE magazine in 2022 and has since progressed from Assistant Editor to Editor. During this time, she has worked across many aspects of the publication – from shaping editorial strategy and overseeing operations to contributing to art direction and representing the brand on stage at industry events including Surface Design Show and WOW!house.

Alongside her role at SPACE, Jess has built a creative career spanning the arts, culture, design and travel sectors. Prior to joining the magazine, she spent more than a decade in the commercial art industry, in artist liaison, gallery management, and curating collections for the hospitality sector across hotels and cruise ships. During this time, she also worked on freelance projects as a writer, photographer, and creative content producer.
 
Jess studied photojournalism at London College of Communication and the Danish School of Media and Journalism and holds a first-class BA (Hons) in Culture, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins.

Fun fact: Katy has spent years perfecting all kinds of accents and loves a good impersonation!

Work highlights: Katy has been with Hotel Designs since the beginning, way back in 2015 when Forum Events & Media Group acquired the brand.

During this time, she has fostered many meaningful relationships with clients from across the hospitality spectrum, as well as playing a pivotal role in the launch of The Brit List Awards, Hotel Designs MEET UPs, client-led roundtables and panel talks, brand and website redesigns, HD Wellness Sets, DESIGN POD podcast, Hotel Designs LIVE panel talk series, Accessible Design Talks and more. Katy is always on the lookout for the next opportunity to help grow the Hotel Designs brand even further.
 
Most recently Katy has stepped in to the role of Publisher at SPACE magazine, the printed bi-monthly publication focused on hotel design, architecture, and development.

Together these platforms offer a comprehensive 360-degree service encompassing digital media, print publishing, and live events – providing unparalleled value to advertisers, partners, and readers alike.