First Look! 👀 The Secret Sauce Behind the World’s Best Workspaces

0:00I remember going to a hotel with my mum and dad and my brothers and I remember looking around the hotel and I remember feeling like I was very intimidated in the space and that the space was not for me. so it was basically like you don't belong here it made me feel intimidated so I always thought that was a really interesting superpower that the designer has is that they can make someone feel like a certain way in the space um and that was when I was quite young um that I felt like that and from there I became really interested in interiors I would basically every interior I went into any shop any hotel any house I would be that snoopy person and go yeah exactly really is that your choice um but yeah I would actually always go to the bathroom it's a weird thing that I did I always just go like in a restaurant I would go to the bathroom first because I wanted to see what it looked like um and what finishes they used and then from there my love for interiors It's just grew and grew and grew.

1:14I am with you on that, though. I know it sounds weird, but even in people's houses, I love their bathroom choices. It helps you a lot, doesn't it, when you love someone? Because I feel like everyone can do their front door and their hall and their lounge and, like, communal spaces, like, nice. But when it comes to bathroom choices... Like, wow, you present your bathroom, how does it smell? Fragrance. Fragrance and the baby. Oh, obsessed with fragrance. Yeah, me too. I'm a huge fragrance person. I think I told you before. like my team know that whenever I go into an office building lobby or any kind of restaurant I always like smell the space and it actually changes your possession of it because you have this instant like oh that smells really lovely and all of a sudden you either feel like really relaxed or you're really high energized just by the fragrance and the senses that you have around you i'm actually with you on that i'm like quite obsessed with essential oils and different fragrances like chamomile lavender like calm you down my lemon lemon and citrus fruits that pick you up yeah exactly get you going energize yeah i think i think it's a bit of like a hidden thing that we need to do in offices oh 100 so a lot of offices are doing in now um we've had clients who have asked us to help them with sense for their spaces um and it's really something that's that's quite fun to be able to do is that you could also do it with the changing seasons so you have different sense for different seasons that give your team a different response to their interior because it feels different you know it gives you a different kind of energy or um feeling you have actually done that yeah so we've done we've done something like that before for a client yeah and i think it's becoming quite common now because you want your brand to not just be what you see it's what all the auxiliary senses that you want to be able to entice as well yeah yeah oh that's cool anyway so you're in this hotel and you were intimidated yeah so i was in this hotel and then i was really intimidated because and i think it was just the finishes that they used the designer was very clever with the finishes because it was obviously aimed for adults it was not really aimed for children and the kinds of finishes that they used were very high end lots of gold gilding big chandeliers it makes you feel very out of place if you're a young child and you bang your trainers in your jeans is intimidating a good feeling to have i think in some places yes i think certain you know certain brands only want certain people coming in with a certain you know money or whatever it is um and that's an extension of your brand it's you know like when you go into boutiques and mayfair they have very little stock in their shops and there's a reason for that it's psychological advertising so you only have a few products but your your space is quite generous So you're showcasing one product in a very large interior that's immediately making you think this is an exclusive product.

4:26So it's that psychological aspect that they think about as well. So you feel quite intimidated because if you go into that shop, there's only three items that you can look at. And then you have to try and make conversation with the salesperson and be like, I actually can't afford this. Okay, bye. And everyone's looking at you, looking at your price tag. shake that well there is no price tag because it's that exclusive and then they just assume you have the money but yeah it's interesting how space yeah exactly less can actually mean more in terms of make you feel that way because it's it's just clever design using lighting using fragrance using materials to make one feel sometimes intimidated sometimes welcome yeah and colder materials and harsh colors and colder colors and angles and all that kind of thing as well like how you manipulated the space and are there lots of curves and it's obviously softer it's more inviting as soon as you start introducing quite sharp angular elements it's quite aggressive and can be seen as quite harsh all that whole that masculine yeah exactly it's just deep isn't it it is there's like a whole can of worms there unless you could just open up