My Approach
Most interiors follow someone else's taste.
The owner took it for their own, simply because it crossed their eye more often than anything else.
My work begins before the floor plan: with finding out what is truly yours.
The sequence
The owner. What you keep, what you avoid, how your morning runs.
The place. Its character precedes you: light, history, street, view.
The concept.The point where owner and place come to terms.
Art and vintage objects. Sourced piece by piece, not by the room.
Materials. What ages well.
Working drawings. From blueprint to brass handle.
Supervision. I stay on site until the drawings and the rooms agree.
The threshold
From 100 square metres. In Lisbon, Moscow and their peers, from 50: there, I know what a metre costs, and I respect the struggle.
About
I have lived in five countries: Russia, Ukraine, the United States, Britain, Portugal.
In each, long enough to live as the locals do: their restaurants, their film festivals, a conversation with a police officer at the next table in a Chicago jazz club.
Another forty-five countries I know by eye. That is how range accumulates: to offer someone precisely their own, you first need to have seen a great variety. Cultures, houses, hotels, streets.
Before interiors came twenty years in brand positioning. The work, at heart, is the same: find in the subject what nobody nearby possesses, and build everything else on it. With homes it is more honest. A brand can be invented; an owner can only be listened for.
Projects completed in Moscow, Lisbon, Miami and Haifa.