"One day, a little while ago, I received a fax from a company based in New York asking me if I would like to visit them with a view to designing a new collection of bath accessories and textiles for the American market.

As you can imagine it didn't take me too long to reply and the next thing I knew I was sat in their offices at No1 Park Avenue with a cup of liptons tea chatting about shower curtains.

The company proved to be fabulously well resourced and connected and over the next 6 months we worked furiously together on a collection which spanned across towels, bone china, resin, and nickel plate.

With a nod to the ubiquitous rubber duck, Nick Munro Bath was launched in October 2002 and proved to be an immediate hit with US department stores.

I had a wonderful time working with the extensive team of professionals at CHF and getting to know and love New York - a place which has become a regular haunt of mine….."