I'm not a beach person; not a beachwear person, anyway. I like walking on beaches, picking up bits of coral and building the occasional sand-sofa with my kids, but always in the same frayed cargo shorts and long sleeved shirt. For those who want a bit more style in their holiday wardrobe, I teamed up with Orlebar Brown to bring some classic David Hicks geometrics to the beach. In the words of the inimitable Konstantin Kakanias, the brilliant creator of fashion icon Mrs Tependris: Geometry, the New Sexy!

To be asked to decorate a room in Sir William Chambers' masterwork, Somerset House, was hugely exciting, even if it would only be there for ten days in March. Wool House had seven 'designer rooms' using only wool to promote the use of this wonderful natural fibre in a world swathed in plastics. My Study was inspired by an imaginary client, one of the classic English gents of the civil service who worked in these rooms for so many years, with walls of sober, pin-checked grey flannel like their business suits, and sudden flashes of bright pinks and reds like their braces, socks and handkerchiefs suggesting some hidden flamboyance. He'd left the room for a moment, leaving Chambers' drawings for the building on his red lacquered desk. His Grayson Perry prints and trompe l'oeil Collectors Cabinet topped by gilded flames showed a certain imagination, his 'thing' for obelisks a craving for the monumental...

You can see examples of my furniture in the various projects under 'Interiors' above; but to see the collection, click here to see the Ashley Hicks Furniture website.

I've been one of the countless Apple devotees since my first Powerbook in 1993. I read the paper on my iPad every morning with breakfast, so I looked for a stand for it; the ones I saw were all hideous, mistakenly designed to imitate Apple styling, extending the device rather than framing it. I decided to make my own, using the epoxy clay that I model furniture parts with. An iPad really wants a hand to hold it, so I made a form that seemed like the next best thing, a sculptural, tactile tripod easel on which it could simply perch without any fiddly setting-up. Rather than Appleish silver, white or black, I made it in an earthy terracotta clay colour, which offsets iPad perfectly, and looks good everywhere.

Everyone who saw my stand wanted one, so I've now produced it in ABS plastic. I call it TréPad as it has three legs and clearly thinks it's très chic. We put a few of them in my sister's shop in Harbour Island, not the most obvious place to sell them, but they sold out in a week. Now I'm selling them online and looking for retail stockists. If you'd like one... www.trepad.com

Above the chair is the flag from his speedboat, with the same H-logo (four H's for Hicks) that appears in Hicksonian and that my father put on everything he could. It's fairly tatty after years of flapping in the salt air of the South of France and, later, the cold rain of Oxfordshire, when it flew on his Range Rover.

The H-logo now appears in my glamorous sister India's new jewellery collection, some of which can be seen on her website, indiahicks.com. I have to admit to checking her blog constantly - it's incredibly entertaining. If I was to attempt the same thing it would be deadly dull; I will, however, put occasional snippets up here on new furniture pieces and other designs - and I have included a page of beautiful Things, and another of beautiful Places, making use of photographs that I have taken over the years.

In my bathroom, the bath panel reads MDCCXLVIII (or 1748,) the date of Giambattista Nolli's printed map of Rome, which covers the left-hand wall: see this and the rest of the house in 'Oxfordshire' under 'Interiors' on the top menu - where there is a selection of my interiors (and even a couple of exteriors.) And, by the way, for any dedicated David Hicks devotees out there, the Hicksonian fabric on the chair is now available as a custom print in my own David Hicks by Ashley Hicks collection from LeeJofa.