I’m a very curious person, and I won’t stop diving into a world until I know as much as I can about any particular subject. Once I’ve digested and applied it fully to a project, I close that chapter and move on to something of a completely different aesthetic.

I devour biographies and memoirs of people I aspire to be, whether it be in the world of interiors, fashion, entertainment or politics. My design library at home is rather extensive — I buy at least one new book each week. I read most every evening and early morning. Friends’ recommendations for movies. Listening to music that suits each project. David Bowie to Warda. I spend a lot of time at home, but it’s also important to meet people. Anyone from a different creative or business world inspires me — the people in my life who know fashion, cultural history, and commerce keep me curious and full of things to write down and look up.

Travel: I’ve just returned from three insane weeks in Japan, exploring the cities and countryside (equally as important to experience both). Before that was two weeks in Israel, Jordan, and Turkey, and one week in Portugal. I’m hoping for more long journeys in 2024 to places that are just as inspiring and influential to my process.

Quietness and solitude: Those are powerful moments to gain confidence, and the only time when electricity moves from your brain and into the physical realm.

I also have to work with clients who are invested in their lives, who are as curious by research and unforgiving to copy/paste as I am. They must be kind, gentle and open. They become my dearest friends, and they become my ultimate source of inspiration, as they become the main character in the set I am designing, for the movie called their life.

American design is a feeling of being free and untethered. What that looks like from an aesthetic point of view is entirely up to the creator. To envision your own world, blank slate, is the most exciting thing imaginable. What’s better than being untethered to a history and being able to pick and choose references so freely? Key point is doing your research