Christopher Stocks

A writer, editor and copywriter, Christopher has written for, among others, House & Garden, Architectural Digest, the Daily Telegraph, the National Trust Magazine, Patek Philippe magazine, Tank and Wallpaper, reporting on everything from Uruguayan beach resorts to an underground submarine base off the coast of Sweden.

His interests range from the luxurious (he edited the Dorchester Collection magazine and 42/18, for the superyacht marina Porto Montenegro) to the down-to-earth; for two years he wrote a weekly gardening column for the Independent on Sunday. He is also fascinated by perfume (which he blogs about at The Sniff Box), trees (as a former editor of Tree News magazine), architecture and social history.

Forgotten Fruits, his first book, was shortlisted for Food Book of the Year by the Guild of Food Writers, and was chosen by Monty Don as his favourite book of the year.

The Book of Pebbles, illustrated by the artist Angie Lewin, was published in early 2019 and is now in its third edition. He has also contributed to Quintessentially Perfume and the Uncommon: London guide, while his introduction to The Honeymoon was featured in the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine.

He has also worked as features editor at House & Garden, contributing editor at Wallpaper and Patek Philippe Magazine, editor of the Coutts Index, and edited numerous trend reports for the Future Laboratory. As a copywriter he has written brochures and online marketing material for, among others, Pentreath & Hall, Emeco chairs, Asprey and São Lourenco do Barrocal. In 2017 he spent six months as an editorial consultant at David Chipperfield Architects.