Judith Kit Kemp (born 1950), is a British interior designer, and founder of Firmdale Hotels,[1] a chain of eleven hotels in London and New York. She is married to Tim Kemp. They were jointly awarded an MBE in 2012,[2] for services to the hotel industry and charity.[3]
Career
Kemp commenced working for an auctioneer, and then for Polish architect Leszek Nowicki. She met her husband Tim Kemp through the architectural practice in the 1980s, and together they started to develop boutique hotels.[4]
Kemp's first establishment was Dorset Square Hotel in 1985. Firmdale has 11 properties, with eight hotels in London including Ham Yard Hotel, the Soho Hotel, Covent Garden Hotel, Charlotte Street Hotel, Haymarket Hotel, Number Sixteen Hotel and Knightsbridge Hotel, and three in New York, The Whitby Hotel, Crosby Street Hotel and Warren Street Hotel.