Catriona Wilson is an Edinburgh-based writer (Bloomsbury), literary agent and editor with a passion for the history of interiors and garden design.  She became a devotee of Nancy Lancaster when newlywed and faced with modernising an old house with no kitchen sink, antiquated bathrooms and a husband who thought the height of sophistication was a basin in a bedroom. “When I grow up,” Nancy wrote, “I want large taps.” So did Catriona. Her high regard for Nancy Lancaster and other women designers of that period meant she was delighted to become agent to Martin Wood, collaborating with him to bring forth his acclaimed book on NANCY LANCASTER and later works. Catriona also studied garden design under the late landscape architect, Anthony du Gard Pasley, with whom she collaborated on two gardens and reviewed gardening books for The Journal.  Her current undertakings include the refurbishment of a Georgian townhouse in a UNESCO world heritage site and the complete overhaul of a McAdam house and gardens. Her guiding principles are Nancy Lancaster’s “Seven Rules and Three Tricks” and Sibyl Colefax’s maxim: “The greatest mistake in the world is to believe that so called good taste is of any use without a sense of comfort to complete it…. Furnish your room for conversation and the chairs will take care of themselves.”   Catriona was for 12 years a Trustee/Director of the Wigtown Book Festival (Scotland’s National Book Town).  She is a Patron of the Scottish National Trust, London’s V & A and the British Museum.