Steven Ferry
The International Institute of Modern Butlers
Honorary Member, writer and Luxury Trainer, The Master Butler
About Steven Ferry
The horizons of the profession are broad and the skillsets required equally so, meaning there is much growth and challenge to be experienced personally; as the saying goes, “Being a butler is a life-long learning experience” and this is what attracted me to the profession initially like a bee to nectar.
I was fortunate enough to have had a first-class education in multiple disciplines during which I came to appreciate the finer things of life that are the woof and warp” of life as a butler.
The satisfaction has not been just in interacting with others as a manager, employee, or service provider who bears witness to and helps facilitate others’ lives, over time becoming a symbiote* for them, but in maintaining a high standard of living and orchestrating, efficiently and aesthetically and generally behind the scenes, happy occasions large and small for one and all. It is an honour to be of use to others, meaning life as a butler has proven to be as pleasing as it promised in those early days so pregnant with hope and excitement.
The essential element of any structure, taken from the technology of weaving, in which the woof (the threads that run across a fabric) and the warp (that run vertically) combine to make the fabric.
Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.
