She hurried round to a furniture designer (8)
I believe the answer is:
sheraton
'a furniture designer' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'she hurried round to' is the wordplay.
'hurried' becomes 'ran' (running is a kind of hurrying).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ran' going around 'to' is 'raton'.
'she'+'raton'='SHERATON'
(Other definitions for sheraton that I've seen before include "Sort of chair" , "Strange North Sea style of furniture" , "Eng. furniture designer" , "man whose legs were shapely?" , "Craftsman" .)