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Design Philosophy
June 2026
There is a question I ask myself at the start of every project: what is the bravest version of this room? Not the cleverest, not the most technically accomplished, not the version that will receive the most predictable admiration — the bravest. Great interiors, like great architecture and great fashion, are not made by committees. They are made by someone willing to stand behind a conviction that others would retreat from. In 25 years of designing for the world's most discerning clients, I have found that the rooms that endure — the rooms that clients still call me about a decade after we finished — are always the ones that frightened everyone during the design process.
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Hospitality Design
May 2026
The Savoy. The George V. The Bauer il Palazzo. When you work on projects of this scale and history, the temptation is to imagine that the brief is to add magnificence. In fact, the brief is almost always the opposite: to understand why the place has endured, and to protect that quality while restoring it. The lesson I have carried from every historic hotel project is that restraint — not abundance — is the hardest luxury to deliver.
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Wellness Architecture
July 2026
The most valuable thing a home can now give a client is not status — it is time. An essay on wellness architecture and the Nine Pillars: how nine engineered systems (circadian light, air, water, EMF shielding, acoustics, thermal comfort, material purity, grounding, and clinical infrastructure) turn a residence into a health-optimizing environment, developed with Dr. Thom Lobe MD and Dr. Fouad Ghaly MD for clients from Beverly Hills and Bel Air to London, Monaco, Dubai, and Riyadh.
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