Imogen Taylor was born in 1926. In 1949 she joined Colefax & Fowler, where she was for many years John Fowler's trusted assistant. She went on to become one of the most prominent interior decorators of the latter part of the twentieth century, working in Britain and the Middle East and extensively in the United States. She retired in 1999, after fifty years at Colefax & Fowler, and now divides her time between her homes in Kent and in Burgundy.