Melissa Penfold

You can change your home and your life, and Melissa Penfold will show you how.

Melissa Penfold is in a category of her own. As the most trusted veteran design journalist in Australia, the best selling author has transformed millions of people’s lives by changing how they live in their homes. Published thousands of times, with a longtime column in the Sydney Morning Herald, and House & Garden magazine, her superpower lies in simplifying complex design ideas into practical concepts anyone can use. If you’ve ever piled a bunch of lemons or apples in a bowl or oversized foliage into a vase, it’s probably because of Melissa. She democratises design. At the heart of everything she does is her easy affordable style. Melissa shows that good design is for everyone, everywhere, and it can be simple.

Named the ‘Queen of Style’ by the Australian media, Melissa has interviewed the world’s greatest living designers and collaborated with Fortune 500 companies like IKEA and Williams-Sonoma, as well as working with brands like B&B Italia, Baker Furniture, Kartell, Maison Objet, Poltrona Frau, Pottery Barn, Royal Copenhagen, Swarovski, Wedgwood, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma and Waterford. In recent years her digital platforms have garnered more than 10 million views. Melissa’s popular instagram and website provides a wealth of decorating, design, art, architecture, entertaining, garden, homekeeping and travel ideas and information.

Melissa lives in Sydney, when she’s not travelling the world, but she is an Australian at heart.