Современная архитектура. Гусева О.Г - 39 стр.

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MY BIGGEST DESIGN MISTAKE WAS...
Getting involved in the bookkeeping. I am 90 percent visual, and figures have
always been a stumbling block for me. I can visualize scale exactly, but I simply
cannot remember a number. My design team implores me not to do quotes.
MY FAVORITE ROOM TO DESIGN IS...
All of them: It's the clean slate that is so stimulating for a creative mind. An
entrance hall as a starting point dictates, to some degree, what will follow. I always
enjoy capturing the spirit of an interior by exploiting, and sometimes exaggerating,
that first venture into the space. But each room has its unique appeal.
I CHANGE MY OWN INTERIORS...
Rarely. When I complete an interior for myself, I consider it a finished canvas.
It's been finely edited. I move on and find that every time I relocate, I need less. I'm
attached to few possessions. I approve of Joan Crawford's disciplinary ruling for her
children that no matter how many gifts they received at Christmas, they were to
choose just one. For some perverse reason, this always made perfect sense to me.
Naturally, I do not apply such an austere dictum to my clients.
THERE ARE MANY RULES DESIGNERS SHOULD BEAR IN MEND. ONE
IS...
The dictates of location. We so easily forget environment. I don't believe
that transferring an urban apartment interior to a Tudor country house, or the
reverse, is ever successful. I think one should be sensitive to the architecture and
vicinity of a structure and approach the design in keeping with that definition.
THE ORDER I FOLLOW WHEN I DESIGN IS...
The first phase is usually about layout and scale. We seldom show fabrics to a
client in the initial presentation, and we deliberately have our renderings executed in
black and white. This allows us to introduce several color schemes without clients
believing that one is our first choice. There are exceptions. One is designing a room
around a previously acquired work of art or an important antique. Fortunately,
decorating is not an exact science.
EVERY HOME MUST HAVE. ..
Comfort. In the end, it is the basic requirement. Billy Baldwin was quoted to-
ward the end of his life as saying, "Lately, I have been thinking how comfort is
perhaps the ultimate luxury." This says it all.
DESIGN LIKES AND DISLIKES...
Likes: Reflecting a 21st-century energy and aesthetic. Dislikes: Creating period
interiors. Although I have great appreciation for furnishings and influences from the
past, it is important that my interiors represent our moment in time.

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