The highest goal of our firm is to help each client create an individual, happy, nourishing refuge that they are proud to share with friends and family.
Your home is your sanctuary. Your living space is not just a physical shelter; it should feel so familiar and individual to you that you walk in and know you are truly home. And when your friends and family enter it, they should say, “This is so you.” Designers have a point of view, but so do our clients.
So to me, the design process is first and foremost collaborative. The client and I form a team whose goal is to maximize a home’s beauty and functionality, working together to make the dream in your mind a reality. The client-designer relationship should mimic the studio effect, building on each other’s ideas in a comfortable give-and-take. That is where the magic lives.
I do not create museums. I do not believe in chairs nobody is allowed to sit in. Neither, however, do I believe that comfortable has to mean slouchy.
I do not create museums, but comfortable does not have to be slouchy. When I look around my own home, I see antiques, which have made it through wars. I see hundred-year-old wool carpets, which have had wine spilled on them and made it through unblemished, due to the natural lanolin coating the fibers. And I also see high-tech performance fabrics made of solution-dyed acrylic, which clean up like a dream, impervious to whatever my children, animals, and party guests throw at them.
Homes are meant to be lived in, so go ahead and enjoy your nice things. But it matters where we put those things, and a little bit of forethought, understanding of materials, and good design go a very long way.
