Peter York
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Peter York, real name Peter Wallis, born 1943, is a British
management consultant, author
and broadcaster
most famous for co-authoring Harpers & Queen's The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He is also a columnist
for The Independent on Sunday, GQ
and Management Today, and Associate of the media, analysis and networking organisation Editorial Intelligence.
of the management consultancy SRU Ltd, and during the 1980s developed the SRU Group of nine specialist business consultancies. He was appointed Chairman of a Department of Trade and Industry Committee in March 1994. The committee was set up to examine the future of leisure in the UK as part of the British Government's 'Foresight' initiative. Peter Mandelson
worked as a consultant to SRU between 1990 and 1992.
SRU was sold to Brunswick Group in 2000. The relationship foundered, and SRU was bought back into private ownership. It remains intensely private, and has no public website.
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He published a series of essays in social and cultural observation in the magazine Harpers & Queen during the late 1970s. Written in the style of Wolfe's new journalism
, these were collected in the book Style Wars (1980). Following the enormous success of The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), itself an extension of such social observation, Peter became a sought-after media commentator on English social trends and traits. A further collection of essays, Modern Times, was published in 1984. Peter York's Eighties (1995), co-authored with Charles Jennings, was both a book and a BBC television series.
Dictators' Homes (2005), published in the US under the title Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots, explored the interior design favoured by dictators as a reflection of their despotic characters.
United Kingdom
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management consultant, author
Author
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and broadcaster
Presenter
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most famous for co-authoring Harpers & Queen's The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He is also a columnist
Columnist
A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs....
for The Independent on Sunday, GQ
GQ (magazine)
GQ is a monthly men's magazine focusing on fashion, style, and culture for men, through articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, sports, technology, and books...
and Management Today, and Associate of the media, analysis and networking organisation Editorial Intelligence.
Peter Wallis
Peter Wallis was the co-founder with Lord StevensonDennis Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Coddenham
Henry Dennistoun "Dennis" Stevenson, CBE, DL was created a life peer as Baron Stevenson of Coddenham, of Coddenham in the County of Suffolk in 1999, and was awarded a CBE in 1981...
of the management consultancy SRU Ltd, and during the 1980s developed the SRU Group of nine specialist business consultancies. He was appointed Chairman of a Department of Trade and Industry Committee in March 1994. The committee was set up to examine the future of leisure in the UK as part of the British Government's 'Foresight' initiative. Peter Mandelson
Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, PC is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, served in a number of Cabinet positions under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and was a European Commissioner...
worked as a consultant to SRU between 1990 and 1992.
SRU was sold to Brunswick Group in 2000. The relationship foundered, and SRU was bought back into private ownership. It remains intensely private, and has no public website.
Peter York
As Peter York, Wallis has made his most high-profile offerings, from writing the Sloane Ranger Handbook and being Style Editor of Harpers & Queen for 10 years, to financing The Modern ReviewModern Review (London)
Modern Review was the name of a London-based magazine reviewing popular arts and culture, founded by Julie Burchill, Cosmo Landesman and its editor, Toby Young. It was published from 1991 to 1995 and principally financed by Peter York. Amongst its high-profile contributors were Nick Hornby, Will...
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He published a series of essays in social and cultural observation in the magazine Harpers & Queen during the late 1970s. Written in the style of Wolfe's new journalism
New Journalism
New Journalism was a style of 1960s and 1970s news writing and journalism which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. The term was codified with its current meaning by Tom Wolfe in a 1973 collection of journalism articles he published as The New Journalism, which included...
, these were collected in the book Style Wars (1980). Following the enormous success of The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), itself an extension of such social observation, Peter became a sought-after media commentator on English social trends and traits. A further collection of essays, Modern Times, was published in 1984. Peter York's Eighties (1995), co-authored with Charles Jennings, was both a book and a BBC television series.
Dictators' Homes (2005), published in the US under the title Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots, explored the interior design favoured by dictators as a reflection of their despotic characters.
Books
- Style Wars (1980)
- The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), co-authored with Ann Barr
- Peter York's Eighties (1995), co-authored with Charles Jennings
- Dictators' Homes (2005)
- Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: the Return of the Sloane Ranger (2007), with Olivia Stewart-Liberty.
External links
- York's biography at The Marketing Society