INTERIOR DESIGN YEARBOOK 2015 Edited by Jade Tilley Foreword by Daniel Hopwood, President, BIID
INTERIOR DESIGN YEARBOOK 2015 contributors Natalia Miyar Head of Design, Helen Green Design Natalia Miyar has been practicing interior design and architecture for over fifteen years, she has established a reputation for creating elegant, luxurious interiors for high net worth private clients and prestigious developments. Natalia took the helm at Helen Green Design in 2011. www.helengreendesign.com Paul Nulty Head of Practice, Paul Nulty Lighting Design Paul established PNLD in 2011 to explore and push the boundaries in lighting design. He has worked on a variety of prestigious and award winning projects across many sectors and combines a creative edge with an eye for detail and an understanding of how lighting impacts atmosphere, mood and behaviour. www.paulnulty.co.uk Lucy Powles Founder, Cocovara Interiors Lucy founded Cocovara Interiors in 2010, an all encompassing design service, embracing elegance and uncompromising attention to detail. Prior to that Lucy honed her skills at Candy & Candy and Pierre Brahm s interiors division, heading up the department. www.cocovara.co.uk Victoria Redshaw Lead Futurist, Scarlet Opus Ltd. Scarlet Opus is a trend forecasting agency working with retailers, manufacturers, designers and the media in the interiors sector, informing them of the future wants, needs and desires of consumers. Victoria is a media spokesperson for many Scarlet Opus clients, and in addition delivers keynote speeches at trade shows and exhibitions internationally. www.scarletopus.com Clare Pascoe Founder, Pascoe Interiors Since 2000, Clare Pascoe has offered a comprehensive interior design service from her design studio in West Sussex. Clare offers clients a sustainable interior design solution that celebrates the best of British skilled industries. www.pascoeinteriors.com 24 2015 INTERIOR DESIGN YEARBOOK David Rockwell Founder and President, The Rockwell Group With a theatre background, David is adept at bringing a sense of showmanship to his work. With architectural training at Syracuse University and further studies at the Architectural Association in London, all of these formative influences continue to have a strong impact on David and the work of Rockwell Group. www.rockwellgroup.com
PAUL NULTY Trend: Lighting By Paul Nulty Head of Practice, Paul Nulty Lighting Design An award winning lighting designer, with 15 years experience, Paul established PNLD in 2011 to explore and push the boundaries in lighting design. He has worked on a variety of prestigious and award winning projects across many sectors, including commercial, residential, retail and hospitality and combines a creative edge with an eye for detail and an understanding of how lighting impacts atmosphere, mood and ultimately behaviour. A theatrical lighting background gives him a unique appreciation of the relationship between space and light. Here Paul throws a spotlight on the wave of ideas invading the lighting industry. L ighting design has come of age. Over the past 10 to 15 years there has been a shift in the understanding of lighting s impact on space. For many years, lighting designers have sought to demonstrate that lighting is not simply a series of fixtures and fittings; good lighting has the ability to turn a poorly designed space into one that is exciting and visually interesting. Equally, poor lighting can render a welldesigned space uninviting and at worst ruin the visual appeal. Clients now realise the significance lighting has on mood and atmosphere and how, by controlling the light you can influence behaviour and the drama of a space; it is finally becoming an equal partner to interior design. Above: This image and headshot courtesy of Sanna Fisher-Payne 152 2015 INTERIOR DESIGN YEARBOOK
LIGHTING Above: Fayair, image courtesy of Sanna Fisher-Payne Concept is at the heart of lighting design in the same way it is at the heart of interior design. Today there is far more opportunity to work in conjunction with interior designers to help bring their designs to life by applying exciting lighting concepts to their work. Working in collaboration, from early on in the design process, clients can expect a holistic interior and lighting design concept that complements its surrounding environment and manages natural light with a creativity that explores and pushes the boundaries to deliver powerful design results. The first two questions that a lighting designer will ask a client are, How is the space going to be used and how do you, your customers and clients want to feel in that space? This is where we start. Simultaneously, we provide the technical expertise. Sustainability, longevity, lowenergy, ease of use and low-cost lighting are all key factors within a lighting concept. Always being aware of new technologies ensures that what we implement not only looks good but is sustainable and affordable; it is crucial the two notions are conjoined. Our role is to instruct clients on how to get the best out of their lighting with the best design, the greatest efficiency and the best use of their money. Unless the lighting concept is subjective, i.e., the focus is on the design of the fixture itself, fixtures are secondary to the quality of light the fixture emits. Clients are still often concerned about fixtures but in an objective concept it is the precise use of illumination, colour and design that creates the mood and brings a space to life for its audience. Clients are often surprised to hear we don t want our designs to dominate, but fuse boundaries between light and architecture and that, for lighting designers, the best schemes are where it is hard to see where lighting starts and architecture ends. Our aim is not to inspire people to say, the lighting looks good, but to be emotionally engaged with the architecture and in awe of the interior décor and finish that we can help project through light. Clients need us to be the experts and guide them through the myriad of energy consumption legislation. Sustainability in lighting is always evolving; for commercial, residential, retailers and leisure operators, adhering to sustainability ratings is crucial. Our role is to wade through this legislation and technology, ensure we re using the best tools, such as compatible control systems, and at the same time provide a creative solution to achieve the best result. Lighting technology evolves at an incredibly fast pace and there s no sign of it slowing down. 15 years ago, lighting designers were on the periphery of the design stage, now that we are more a part of the main INTERIOR DESIGN YEARBOOK 2015 153
PAUL NULTY Above: Clever lighting accents dining spaces team, clients are introducing us to projects earlier. How this benefits the client is that we can start to evaluate the space, the quality and quantity of daylight filtering through and collaborate with the architect and interior designer on how to best use it. LEDs have been the greatest influence in the crossover between commercial and residential, mainly because they are becoming more financially viable for home use. The miniaturisation of technology has also enabled lighting to become more integrated into design, which works perfectly in the home. By adding light under a shelf, embedded within a handrail or under a skirting is another example of lighting design fusing with architecture, you don t see the light fitting rather the architecture itself is illuminated. These miniature spots have become a great trend in the home because they add depth and character to a room. There will be continual development of new technology in 2015; this is less of a trend and more of a fact. We re getting very close to LED Retrofit bulbs matching those of incandescent quality. As a result, we are seeing a resurgence of decorative (subjective) lighting, such as wall fixtures and pendant luminaires. This dipped for a while as people turned to the minimalist LED spots, put off by ugly retrofit compact fluorescent lamps, but now it is definitely on the rise again. Within homes we expect much wider user of integrated lighting with the advent of Philips Hue and Nest; people have better understanding of home automation and this is starting to filter down to how we control lighting. At the very least, people can now plug in and control it from their iphone. Wifi continues to change the way we live and it has enabled greater and more effective remote control of the light inside our homes. However, although finishes, fashions and technology continually evolve and adapt, changes in the quality of light and the effect it has on the human psyche, and the human need for variation in light levels will never succumb to trend. People know how they feel in certain illumination and this is what will draw them into, or repel them from, a space. What we do is make that space as inviting as we can; the design of a room might change but the need to illuminate it to rouse emotion and engage in the best way possible, doesn t. www.paulnulty.co.uk 154 2015 INTERIOR DESIGN YEARBOOK
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