Art & Design Inner Calm
Art & Design Inner Calm 1 2 RELAX 3 Refined repose is the key to recharging, and these pieces, products and designers can help 5 1 Trove’s Jungle cushion boasts a Samuel & Sons jute trim and ultra-soft down and feather filling, thetrove. co.uk 2 Bang & Olufsen’s modular Beosound Shape sound system consists of an individually configured set of wireless speakers that form a unique piece of wall art, bang-olufsen.com 3 The Walnut Backgammon Board by Nine Fair has been hand-painted and lined with woven raffia, ninefair.com 4 Amber crystals encased at the core of L’Artisan Parfumeur’s handcarved Amber Ball diffuse balmy notes of vanilla, patchouli and tonka bean, artisanparfumeur.com 5 Brunello Cucinelli’s Lux candle boasts a sultry blend of fragrances, from lemon and bergamot to jasmine, moss and amber, brunellocucinelli.com 4 COVETABLE TOMES Dive into these mesmerising volumes Geert Lap: Specific Objects on the Dutch ceramicist, nai010.com; Nordic Islands for the region’s natural drama, teneues-books.com; Adrian Ghenie: Paintings 2014-19 showcases the Romanian artist’s work, hatjecantz.de; A Mycological Foray contains composer John Cage’s musings on fungi, ateliereditions.com; Aran ventures inside a cult Scottish bakery, hardiegrant.com; The Island Kitchen for recipes from the Indian Ocean, bloomsbury.com; The Life of Tea follows leaves from plantation to mug, octopusbooks.co.uk 40 CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM
1 4 2 3 PHOTOS COURTESY THE COMPANIES ALL ABOUT ATMOSPHERE A shortlist of superlative air purifiers 5 1 The Coway Airmega removes up to 99.97% of all particles, and has a mobile app that can control the settings and delivers real-time reports on air quality, cowaymega.com 2 San Francisco-based Molekule’s Air is an easily portable, whisper-quiet mechanism that works to not only capture, but break down household pollutants, molekule.com 3 The wificontrolled purifier from LG Signature improves your environment with a highflying watering system that perfectly primes the air with atomised water to your custom humidity settings, lg.com 4 The Bellaria from Italian firm Falmec increases the bioactive components naturally found in the mountains or by the sea and doubles as a soft-glowing lamp, making it a gentle and elegant bedroom accessory, falmec.com 5 Blue Air’s Blue Pure 121’s HEPAsilent technology entirely filters the air in a room every 12 minutes, while colourful spandex pre-filters catch larger particles, blueair.com LETITIA FITZGIBBON In Conversation The head of interior design at Harrods speaks about trends, her team of 26 and more How are people approaching their interiors in 2020? Clients need their homes to do more than ever before. Almost overnight, the home now needs to operate as a workplace, gym and entertainment venue, all while still fulfilling the basic requisites you would ordinarily expect from your interiors. To allow this, clear and effective space designation is now a key focus in interiors. Outdoor spaces have also become a focus, as going out is now more likely to involve your garden and some home entertaining than anything else. Your design team is one of the best-kept secrets at Harrods – how many projects do you work on each year? We offer four different services: interior design; interior architecture; furniture planning and interior styling. Large-scale projects, where we completely renovate or design a property from scratch involving interior design and architecture, is a more involved process and we typically average five a year. Other projects tend to be a lot quicker, and we have anywhere from 20 to 50 of these. How are you and the team able to approach so many different styles and projects? Our clients expect something truly bespoke, and we go out of our way to achieve this in our designs. We use referencing as a design tool and combine the history and context of the building and location with the client’s needs, taste and interests. Our designers all have different backgrounds and expertise, tastes and experience, and we’re also uniquely situated as an interior-design studio because we have an enviable selection of brands and expertise available at our fingertips within Harrods. Speaking of the store, Harrods has recently centralised the interiors offerings to a beautiful space on the third floor. What’s the highlight for you? Aside from our Studio space, definitely The Fabric Library. Home services are at the heart of this new floor. The Fabric Library is a great embodiment of this commitment to bespoke services, displaying the world’s finest fabrics. Clients are free to browse this area and engage in its full upholstery installation service. harrods.com CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM 41
