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FACTS ON THE TABLE
The other day I was in a meeting of entrepreneurs and a woman approached me. She was tall, blonde, dressed in a suit, brown jacket with a long rounded face. “Are you an interior designer? There´s something I just don´t understand. Who asks for your services? Because when I need a table, I go to […]
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CURLY WURLY?
We have to go back to the great and ancient civilization of Egypt to find mention of the first hairdressing or barber services. It was the high society and the priests who used all kinds of hairstyles and treatments for the hair. In Roman and Greek civilization we also come across hugely elaborate hairstyles that […]
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THE FOUR COLOUR AGREEMENTS
After 23 years’ experience in interior design, I would like to share with you four colour agreements I have come to conceive: 1 – Colours transmit emotions Colours influence our emotions and acts, and because of this there is colour psychology! There are colours identified as cold and others as hot. Cold colours are blues, […]
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The Importance of Artifacts
Captivating, intriguing and arousing. Three adjectives I like to summon when considering what decorative artifacts to bring to bear in my interior designs. My three examples for this blog are a wooden sculpture of a soldier from Madagascar, a series of Amazonian pots from the Brazilian island of Marajó and a miniature panther from the […]
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Crocodiles, palm trees and circles
In 31 BC, Nîmes, in the South of France, became part of the Roman Empire after the city supported Caesar Augustus with troops for the conquest of Cleopatra´s and Marc Antony´s Egypt. To commemorate the victory, coins were struck in which a crocodile (the symbol of Egypt) is chained to a palm tree (the symbol […]
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FROM WHEREVER YOU LOOK, YOU CAN SEE THE SEA
This large and beautiful house already had all the prerequisites to transform its large terrace into a spectacular private chill-out area. HOW? Owners open to new ideas A spectacular, modern house A large outside terrace A sizeable budget The house is situated in the Costa Brava some sixty feet above sea-level. From wherever you look […]
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AN INTERIOR PATIO NOW FULL OF LIGHT
Where once there was a neglected patio, surrounded by walls, now there is a marvelous patio full of light and life ACHIEVED BY Opening it up to the rest of the living space … Converting a closed space into an oasis … Converting a forgotten area into a sequence of spaces – a unified continuity […]
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THE CORK SEA FLOATS
Round, rough and irregular. Cork sea floats have always been used to buoy up fishing nets. Now they stand proud on a tall glass case, a noble sculpture in my living room. I live in St. Feliu de Guixols, last southern outpost of the Baix Empordà in the Costa Brava. It is a place I […]
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