A key member of design house Restless Design, Aoife
Rhattigan turned a childhood obsession with constructing things out of Lego
into a career in interior design. Here, she offers her 7 essential design
rules…
1. Look all around you. I spend a lot of time
researching images, that would be my main thing. Even using those three words
that we talked about and putting them into Google just to see if anyone else
around the world has done this or just to see what might pop up. Scour the
Internet!
I get really excited and giddy when I see things I’ve never
seen before. I like to research new craftspeople and to hear about new
materials. With a new space, I take loads of photos and try and get as
much information as possible about the people living there.
2. Source from all over. I like to use local
work and craftspeople wherever we can, but honestly it’s a mixture when you’re
going project by project. Sometimes the budget or selection doesn’t suit,
sometimes it’s about keeping it local and giving back to the community. We
source materials from everywhere.
3. Be bold. I try and encourage people to step
out of their comfort zone. There are so many great talents around now and we’ve
become a lot more cosmopolitan. The appetite for design is growing in Ireland
but we’re still not at the level of the Scandinavians or the Italians, so at
Restless we’re on a mission to get everyone in love with design.
The name came from the fact that we’re always restless for
the next idea, always looking forward to the next thing. We like to take
people on a journey and that means we try and always be bespoke
so that everything we produce for clients is unique for them. We don’t like to
take shortcuts and take pleasure in being thorough – a passion for detail is in
our DNA.
Read more on... Aoife
Rhattigan’s Top 7 Interior Design Tips
Author: IMAGE INTERIORS & LIVING
No comments:
Post a Comment