Posted by Rachel Westall on 12 December 2024
Search Press is deeply saddened to announce the death of its founder, Countess Charlotte de la Bedoyere (Lotti), who died peacefully on Friday 22nd of November 2024 at the age of 93. Lotti was a pioneering force in the publishing world, and the author of a number of popular books. We are thinking of the Search Press family at this difficult time.
In 1971, Lotti published her first practical, instructional craft book. Craft gradually took over as the main business of the company, and the company still thrives and prospers today as an independent, family-owned and family-run art and craft publisher; it still operates today in very much the way she set it up.
After her retirement in 1997 she continued to photograph many of Search Press' books but also concentrated on her great interest in natural woodland. She authored, among others, Plant a Natural Woodland and then Portrait of a Woodland, telling the story of the acres of indigenous trees she planted following the great storm of 1987.
