Claire combines a rigorous design process based on human centric principles with a passion for the decorative arts, surface and colour. The spaces she creates are both grounded in the lived reality of the people who use them, and playfully crafted with a painterly approach to colour and texture.
Her projects marry the dual roles of interior as a functioning place and interior as image or canvas for self-expression and brand. She is deft at identifying the specific qualities of an existing place or building, and then accentuating these – playing with the period references to craft interiors that feel rooted and authentic.
Claire’s strategic offer recognises how design, and any investment in a refurbishment, has a broader role to play in a business or family plan. It can be leveraged to support a shift in patterns of behaviours, culture, relationships and opportunities to change direction and create new communities or audiences online and in real life. Like all investments, a clear-eyed focus on the intended ROI in terms of life-outcomes, joy or actual financial or business growth is needed. Claire ensures this is defined at the outset and then monitored throughout.
Claire previously led design teams across public realm projects for Future Cities London and Gehl Architects in Copenhagen. She was also a Design Expert for the Design Council and acted as design consultant on many major schemes such as the Earls Court redevelopment. Claire has long been a proponent for human-centric design - understanding how places make us feel, and how they nudge us to behave. She has written and presented widely on the subject of designing for the senses for the Guardian, TEDX, Design Manchester, Festival of Ideas Bristol, V&A, Hyper Island, LSE, and more.
She has an MSc in Design Sociology from The London School of Economics, a First Class degree in Painting from Chelsea College of Art, and a Diploma in Art and Design from Central St Martins.
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Islington
London N19 4DR
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