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DesignPeople<br />
PATRICK WARING<br />
Partner<br />
Silverfox Studios Pte Ltd Interior Architectural Design<br />
From the UK<br />
Years residing in Singapore: 25<br />
The Expat<br />
Interior Designers<br />
On Singapore Style and favourite local foods. By Carol Kraal<br />
How would you create Singapore Style<br />
in a residential project?<br />
I see Singapore Style as Urban Resort. Modern and<br />
layered, as if you are looking through the canopy of a<br />
rain tree.<br />
What is your favourite Singapore<br />
neighbourhood and why?<br />
Chinatown. This is where my office is, and where my<br />
favourite restaurants are. This area has modernity and<br />
history, idiosyncrasy and culture.<br />
What Singapore foods do you like?<br />
Hock Lam Beef noodles at China Street – dry with kway<br />
teow.<br />
EMMA MAXWELL<br />
Founder and interior design director<br />
Emma Maxwell Design<br />
From Australia<br />
Years residing in Singapore: 10<br />
How would you create Singapore<br />
Style in a residential project?<br />
I would make really subtle references to<br />
Peranakan culture. Addressing use of pattern<br />
and form and articulating it with sharper more<br />
contemporary lines. I would play on light and<br />
dark contrasts and colour accent with colour that<br />
I would draw down from Peranakan tiles and<br />
plates and so forth.<br />
What is your favourite Singapore<br />
neighbourhood and why?<br />
Tiong Bahru. I love the art deco building and<br />
great dining options there.<br />
What Singapore foods do you like?<br />
I love Peranakan food. I’m fascinated by the<br />
process involved in cooking it. It’s a lot more<br />
lyrical and lighter on the palate than a lot of<br />
heavier Singaporean dishes.<br />
RIO SIASAR<br />
Senior designer, with special focus on tasks involving design<br />
concepts and FFE, as well as operations and client management<br />
Miaja Design Group Pte Ltd<br />
From: Philippines<br />
Years residing in Singapore: Nearly 10 years<br />
How would you create Singapore Style in a residential project?<br />
Singapore Style in a residential project would definitely call for a Global Eclectic<br />
approach, where you are not bound by any cultural or aesthetic boundaries. Much like<br />
the country itself, you must simply find ways for the global elements you are inspired<br />
with everywhere you turn, and for these to be conveyed in the interior design. Combine<br />
that with a disciplined approach of classic restraint and sensible styling, not easy but<br />
definitely possible with the right team to work with, and you have got yourself an<br />
exceptional interior that will prove truly unique.<br />
What is your favourite Singapore neighbourhood and why?<br />
I find myself most drawn to the Bras Basah area, for its hole in the wall food finds, and<br />
the museums, gift shops, and bookstores within walking distance of each other.<br />
What Singapore foods do you like?<br />
Chilli crab is a definite must have by anyone stopping by in Singapore; as well as Indo<br />
Malay fusion dishes which I find myself ordering time and again.<br />
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