Alex Eagle completed the Ballymaloe Cookery School 12 Week Certificate Course in 2001 and has since built one of the most original and quietly influential careers in British creative life.
Raised in London by an art dealer father and a TV producer mother, Alex went on to study Art History before cutting her teeth in fashion media at Tank and Harper's Bazaar, and later in retail and PR at the storied British label Joseph. It was during those years spent watching the full arc of a product's life — from creation through to the customer — that she began to identify a gap no one had filled: a space that felt like home, where you could linger over a coat and a bookshelf and a piece of art all in the same afternoon.
In 2014, she opened the doors to Alex Eagle Studio on London's Lexington Street in Soho — a light-filled, carefully curated destination blending fashion, furniture, art, beauty and rare books in a setting that deliberately mirrors a living space rather than a conventional shop. Around the same time, she took on the role of creative director of The Store, a concept retail and co-working space with outposts inside Soho House in Berlin, at Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire, and at 180 The Strand in London. Alongside this, she co-founded Eagle & Hodges, an interior design practice with childhood friend Sophie Hodges.
Her most recent project, Corner Shop at 180 The Thames, is perhaps her most personal yet — a green-and-white tiled, all-day grocer, bakery, café and wine bar that moves effortlessly from morning coffee to evening wine, stocked with the kind of artisan and seasonal produce that Ballymaloe would recognise immediately. Alex served as creative director of the space, designing the interiors with Sophie Hodges.
"Once you find something you love," she has said, "make it your life." It is a principle she has applied with quiet consistency across everything she touches.
