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 What food/dessert best describes your design
style? How has it changed over the past
three years? What would you like it to
be in five years?
Much of my
work is made to order, allowing the customer a choice of material, size,
finish, colour etc so perhaps a personal chef who creates a meal specifically
for you would be an appropriate analogy. In the future I’d like to combine this
with more retail/off the shelf pieces – a set menu in effect.
The first thing you notice in a restaurant?
The
atmosphere, simply how it feels when you walk in. Lighting and music are
particularly important. And obviously the (hopefully) wonderful aromas too.
Eating what food brings back the best memories?
My Grandmas homemade apple pie, it reminds me of Christmas
morning – as a treat I was allowed it for breakfast!
If money were no object, you’d buy what for
your home?
I love chairs, so I’d have lots of original designs – work
by Prouvé, Panton, Jacobsen and a La Chaise by Eames.
Last piece of art you placed in your home?
The last piece of art I bought was a large piece of Marimekko fabric, which I
had put onto a wooden frame as a wall hanging. Wallpaper panels from 1metre high x 60cms wide.
Company/place/institution you’d love to leave
your mark on.
I’d love to ‘Outdoor Wallpaper’ a well-known building, even
as only a temporary installation – perhaps the Tate Modern, or the clean white
walls of London’s Design Museum. Large scale commissions are something I really
would love to move into more.
Place you go for design inspiration?
Getting out
of the city and away from anything overtly ‘designed’, allowing you to clear
your mind and back to nature I guess. In particular I love Cornwall, the wonderful landscape and
especially the sea – heavenly.
Magazine you can’t live without.
I enjoy reading the magazines in the newspapers at the
weekend, The Guardian on a Saturday and then The Sunday Times Style magazine,
ideally with good coffee and a highly calorific pasty or cake! I also love
graphics magazines and adore Magma bookshop in London – I could loose whole
days in there.
Celebrity you’re inexplicably intrigued by.
This question is WAY too hard!! Male scottish actors, anyone from Ewan McGregor to Sean Connery - its all in the
accent.
You’re most proud of your collection of…
I don’t
collect anything in particular, I just collect things I like whatever they
happen to be – I tend to be most proud of resisting rather than buying! I do
love second hand shops and markets, and also buying work by individual
designer-makers direct from their studio, there’s some great places in London like Cockpit Arts and Clerkenwell
Green Association, you can even get pieces made specifically for you to make
them extra special.
Look for Susan's work at the Chelsea Flower Show next week in London (23-27 May) and at 100% Design in September.
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