page_title: Luke Hughes (furniture designer)
section_title: Mountaineering
hierarchical_section_title: Luke Hughes (furniture designer) / Mountaineering
caption_attribution_description: English: Luke Hughes climbing on Mt Xixabangma 8027m - October 1987
context_page_description: Luke Hughes is an English furniture designer and former maker, founder and CEO of Luke Hughes and Company Limited, whose designs can be found in many of Britain’s institutional buildings including Westminster Abbey, the two chapels in the Tower of London, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, 24 cathedrals, more than 100 parish churches, 60 of the 70 Oxford and Cambridge University Colleges, and a number of official professional headquarters such as the Royal Institute of British Architects and the General Medical Council. His work also extends to 900 corporate boardrooms, academies in China, universities and synagogues in the United States. He is an accomplished mountaineer and has explored unmapped areas of central Tibet. He is married to Polly Phipps who is joint CEO of his eponymous company. They have one daughter.
context_section_description: Expeditions include North face of The Eiger and to within 100m of the summit of Everest via the Hornbein Couloir: also pioneering expeditions to Tibet (six trips), Nepal (eight trips), Kashmir (two trips), Greenland, Rockies, Alps, and Pyrenees. Hughes spent his 60th birthday at 6,500m on the border of Tibet and West Nepal.
caption: Luke Hughes on North Face of The Eiger - 1986
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