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THE NEW WORLD OF

INTERIOR INTELLIGENCE

Using our microenvironment as a theatre

to tell the story of our lives

reative behavioural feeling isolated in an interior world and I was fascinated by how people’s
strategist, Kim Williams, and shares her views of how the engagement with my room would alter
says that we have entered evolution of intelligent interiors when I changed the elements within
a time where great interior can facilitate a better experience of it,” she says.
Cdesign has moved past living.
purist notions of practicality. It has “It taught me that our behaviour
become centred around creating EVOLUTION OF PERSPECTIVE is largely influenced by how we
spaces that are mindful and serve “As a child, I spent many hours experience the elements around us.
our lifestyle and work objectives. looking out at the world, which There is real power in shuffling the
There is a depth and an insight that shaped my understanding of how objects you already have in a space to
we have into what we want from our interior spaces can be a sanctuary refresh your personal perspective and
spaces that Kim refers to as ‘interior during chaos. As I shared my story renew the space’s emotive power.”
intelligence’ and it is taking interior in my new book - MyYellowRoom - I
designers and homeowners alike on a realised how my experience of feeling By understanding a person’s unique
whole new journey. isolated in my room prepared me for perspectives, one can create new
the needs of my clients before social life stages and facilitate specific
Having grown up spending many distancing was even an idea, and experiences in the spaces that are truly
hours indoors in her yellow bedroom helped me understand the power expressive of the person’s desires and
as a child because of a club foot, that our spaces hold. My room was are absolutely an authentic reflection
Kim has a particular insight into a place I could control and change, of them.

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