My father, George Freeman, who has died aged 89, was an interior designer whose varied career took him all over the world. As George Freeman Design Consultants, working from a small office close to his home in London, he specialised in designing the interiors of hotels in places such as Egypt, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Morocco and Kenya. He loved that line of work, as he particularly enjoyed the chance to visit new countries and to experience different cultures.
George was born to a working-class couple, Elizabeth (nee Quickenden) and Richard Freeman, and grew up in north London. Along with his elder brother, Dick, he was evacuated in the early years of the second world war to Childwickbury Manor in Hertfordshire, which later became the home of the film director Stanley Kubrick.
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