Kit Kemp

In 2012, Kemp published her first book, A Living Space. This was followed by Every Room Tells A Story which was published in 2015. Her third book, Design Thread, was published in February 2019. Kemp has been a guest editor for Homes & Gardens (UK) and Hospitality Design (US).

Kit Kemp and her husband Tim Kemp have converted properties such as warehouses and car parks into hotels. In 2007, they were awarded the Crown Estate's Urban Business Award for the regeneration of Haymarket Hotel. They have received press coverage for the Soho Hotel and Ham Yard Hotel in London, as well as Crosby Street Hotel and The Whitby Hotel in New York.

Kemp's first establishment was Dorset Square Hotel in 1985. Firmdale has 10 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 two in New York, The Whitby Hotel and Crosby Street Hotel.

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 the concept of boutique hotels.

Judith Kit Kemp MBE (born 1950), is a British interior designer, and founder of Firmdale Hotels, a chain of ten hotels in London and New York. She is married to Tim Kemp. They were jointly awarded an MBE in 2012.