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My approach to interiors has been shaped as much by places and objects as by formal design.

The visual language I return to has accumulated over a lifetime: growing up between different worlds, travelling, collecting, and remembering the objects and interiors that have stayed with me.

Texas gave me scale, ranches, horses, leather and a certain generosity of space. Taos introduced me to adobe architecture, earth pigments and the extraordinary visual culture of the American Southwest. Paris brought another relationship with proportion, architecture, antiques and the accumulated beauty of old rooms.

Morocco, and particularly travelling to Tangier as a teenager, left an enduring impression through carved wood, metalwork, rugs, lanterns, tiles and the meeting of European and North African aesthetics. That influence reappeared later through Spain, where Moorish and Spanish traditions coexist so beautifully.

The Mediterranean has been another constant. Greece, Mallorca and other parts of Spain brought whitewashed architecture, stone, ceramics, sea light and a way of living between indoors and outdoors.

My Dutch family background brings another element: an affection for the nautical, ships, shells, maritime objects and the visual language of a country whose history is inseparable from the sea.

Further away, the Caribbean, including Turks and Caicos and Guadeloupe in the French Caribbean, introduced brilliant light, shells, palms, woven materials and objects shaped by island life.

Aspen and Colorado brought yet another world: timber, stone, mountains, firelight, substantial furniture and the visual romance of the American West.

These places are not themes I reproduce literally. They have become visual anchors, fragments of colour, material, architecture and memory that I instinctively bring together.

I love interiors that feel collected rather than decorated: rooms in which objects from different countries, periods and traditions can coexist because they have meaning, beauty or a story attached to them.