Interview with Cassie Potts an interior design artist from Melbourne
Cassie Potts "believes that any room we spend our time in should present not just a sense of comfort and sanctuary simply should also be a place that provides an aesthetic and emotional journeying that delights the dweller".
Q:Tell usa about the moment when you decided to follow a career in the field of interior pattern.
There actually wasn't a definite; defining moment for me in terms of me seeing Interior Design as my career. My history in is Visual Fine art (rather than a more conventional background in Design) with a focus on Installation Art. And so my path into Interior Design started with my turning my own apartment into a gallery space.
View in gallery I take e'er enjoyed creating artistic compositions out of functional design/interior elements; and later I created small arrangements of objects and furniture; rooms but came together for me by creating links and synergies between these autonomous visual arrangements.
Friends who loved my ain habitation asked me to then style their own…and a career path was born from this.
View in gallery Q:Did you take other options in mind at the time?
I taught Art and Design for many years. I have also dabbled in designing clothes and still accept a passion for fashion (especially men's styling). Notwithstanding, I find Interior Design much more gratifying and something that everyone seems to please in, whereas designer fashion is something only a fairly small number of people seem to appreciate. I go along to write a men'south style blog (menwtw.com), then I practise withal get to keep a finger in that pie… I do dear writing!
Q:Where exercise y'all wait for an obscure source of inspiration?
I have a potent sense of irony and delight in annihilation kitsch, so I honey furniture or decor that comes out of developing nations such every bit Mexico and India and have been fabricated from the about unlikely of materials such as tacky advertising signage or empty vegetable oil drums. I love the gaudy colours and the reference to another life/context that comes from using these recycled materials. Being a huge fan of pop-art I suppose I as well like the shameless dynamic eye-catching colours on labels of tins and bottles in these countries. Vivid pinks, greens and yellows; and 1960'south-70'due south styles fonts and images.
Q:Favorite thing nearly your job?
Creating art that people get to living in.
Q:What is your first design projection?
Apart from my ain apartment; a gorgeous warehouse flat in an old wool-shop (Brisbane, Australia). The dark brick and floors were gorgeous but gloomy. Another claiming was to retain the sense of (huge) infinite whilst dividing the open up plan up into distinct, functional living spaces. I used weighty pieces of furniture and decor to retain the sense of forcefulness and awesome largeness of the space. I defined different areas with different wood/textile tones and injected life and low-cal into the infinite with brilliantly illuminated pieces of art.
Q:What's your favourite room to decorate?
The kitchen! It is such a warm, friendly space and because it is never going to exist a thin area due the all the appliances, benches etc I adore taking reward of this and inserting equally many visual delights into the space equally I can get away with. Like I mentioned; I really similar the labels on many tins of food etc then I ofttimes include food products in my color scheme and layout which is fun…playful. Stainless-steel and woods also come together beautifully in this room and are two of my favourite artful features in a space; so the kitchen is definitely a favourite room for me.
Q:What's your current paint colour obsession?
I will always love white, because it provides such a bang-up backdrop to vibrantly coloured piece of furniture and decor. Also a dominant interior theme of white means that you tin can include more items in a space without making it seem cluttered. However, I too call up a calorie-free grayness, such as a dove grayness, is such a wonderful color in interiors. It compliments so many other tones whilst making a red or yellow chair (for example) just *pop*. Yellowish will always be a favourite colour for furniture and decor and works beautifully in a room painted grey, white or even a muted shade of blue-grey.
Q:What is the tendency for bathroom/bedchamber/kitchen and living room this year?
Huge question! I apologise if my answer is a little bit abstract only I virtually feel like it has to be delivered similar the exact version of a mood board, which is non overly organised or linear. When I talk 'trends' its oftentimes in the class of juxtapositions between textures, colours and concepts. For case I see a lot of calorie-free natural materials/fibres with bright colours and even matt black; the lightness of the untreated/painted wood providing respite between the dumbo block of color on a painted wall or piece of article of furniture. On the flip side, I run into interiors beingness fun spaces that tell a detailed (nevertheless subtly restrained) tale of the occupant's life, and so I encounter (for me) 2012 existence a yr of opulent, eccentric interiors, full of diverse yet ornate article of furniture, textiles and eclectic art and design objects. However, this opulence would be prepare confronting (even balanced out) by a properties of unlike shade of grey and even blackness. There are plenty current trends, existing in parallel to accommodate whatever client.
Q:What'south exciting you lot in the design world correct now?
Bloggers! Their interest and talent in collecting an synthesising inspiring imagery from all artistic and pattern disciplines is a abiding source of inspiration to my practice…and my own web log!
Q:What do yous consider to be the almost iconic design piece of the by century?
I think the Arc Lamp or Arco Lamp (eg. Bauhaus Arc Lamp, Castiglione Arco Lamp…) is such a hit and practical interior particular. I love the sense of tension, all the same balance of this object whilst being fantastically suitable to so many spaces.
Q:What do you think is the easiest way to update a room?
Plants and quality art. Plants can hands freshen up any room, and interesting; 'good' fine art tin can add vibrancy and elegance to a space with very petty other [distinctive] piece of furniture. Also, 'go rid of stuff'. If a place is dated, so strip it back to the blank minimum…and add a establish!
Q:Anything new and exciting that y'all desire to share with the Homedit readers?
Lookout man my spaces! Mdartinteriors.com.au; mdartinteriors.tumblr.com, facebook.com/mdartinteriors, twitter.com/mdartinteriors.Exciting things are *always* happening!
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