Sophie first cut her teeth in the world of design with her brother Jasper, starting on his fashion team, and then, over the years, working as his Colour Predictor and then Product Manager. She has also worked with her father, accessorising his restaurants, interior designing show flats at the newly opened Butlers Wharf development and gave direction for his various retail and design projects. Working as a buyer at the Design Museum’s shop and The Conran Shop, Sophie eventually set up her own shop Wong Singh Jones in Notting Hill. One of her first ventures at 19, was to set up a supper club, followed by a catering company with her brother Tom, where they organised glamorous and unusual parties and events together; an experience that still helps in her role as patron for Breakthrough for Breast Cancer’s various campaigns.

Even at 20, Sophie proved to be an astute businesswoman, buying her Bayswater flat, then a cluster of unpromising bed-sits. She reunited the rooms and renovated and decorated throughout. Once shown to friends and family, private interior design commissions followed! Her base to this day, Sophie recently bought an adjoining flat, renovated it and incorporated it into her beautiful home.

In the early 90’s, Sophie lived in Australia where she was involved with new product development for the home-wares range of Country Road.  On returning to the UK, Sophie’s love of the rural continued.  Living in Devon, rearing pigs and growing vegetables, Sophie’s  horticultural skills, honed in Australia and at the Chelsea Physic Garden, were put to good use where she learnt about food and how to grow her own from scratch. Her love of home grown food and flowers continues to this day.

Sophie launched her first food range, Sophie Conran Pies, a capsule collection of handmade top quality, gourmet pies launched in 2004 - winners of 4 Fine Food Awards in 2005.  Sophie’s debut cookbook ‘Pies’ was published in November 2006 by Collins and was a huge success, with a mini version entitled ‘Easy Pies’ selling exclusively at Marks and Spencers. Her second book, Soups and Stews, was published by Collins in October 2008 and a further cookery book is in the pipeline.  Sophie has written food & entertaining stories for many UK titles including InStyle and Living etc and she has been a contributing editor for Junior Magazine since 2006, with a 2-page Food and Drink column. As of November 2009, Sophie also has a monthly column with House Beautiful Magazine and in the past has been a Entertaining Editor of Instyle Magazine, and a Food Editor at LivingEtc Magazine.

In March 2006, Sophie’s 60 piece kitchen and tableware range for Portmeirion launched nationwide in the UK. It has been a phenomenal success, winning prestigious awards such as the Elle Decoration Style Award for Best in Kitchens 2006 and the House Beautiful Award for Best Tableware in November 2008. Sophie Conran for Portmeirion is currently sold in over 55 countries, and the range has expanded to now include storage, candles, wooden kitchen equipment and as of Autumn 09 a bathroom range. Due to the massive demand in America, Sophie has created a beautiful new fine dining range, White Oak, launched exclusively in the USA in April 2008, and in the UK and Europe from early 2009.

In 2008 Sophie began a collaboration with Arthouse to create an exclusive debut collection of wallpapers for B&Q. This range was launched in Autumn 2008 in over 300 stores around the UK. This range was then followed by Sophie’s Pattern Book, a brand new luxury designer-wallpaper collection, comprising 10 new designs, and numerous colourways, launched in 2009, now in 450 outlets worldwide. A second Pattern Book to follow in 2010.

Sophie is currently working on various new and exciting design projects. In May 08, she teamed up with luxury bathroom store, Drummonds of Chelsea, to re-design their showroom. In June 2008 she started working with Harvey Jones, as brand ambassador for the prestigious bespoke kitchen furniture company and in July 2009, launched ‘the Cook’s Companion’, their first piece of freestanding kitchen furniture. In Summer 09, Sophie launched Sophie Conran for Temple Guiting, a stunning barn and manor house in the Cotswolds offering luxury gastronomic experiences for guests to come and enjoy.  Spring 2010 sees Sophie promoting bulbs for the International Flower Bulb Centre, and many other exciting new projects are in the pipeline, across both home and fashion.