Here, we ask designers to take a selfie and give us an inside look at their life.
Age: 43
Occupation: Principal and owner of an interior design studio.
Instagram: @susannahholmbergstudios
Hometown: Salt Lake City.
Studio location: Salt Lake City.
Describe what you make: Interiors designed around the premise that life is profoundly influenced by the spaces that surround us. We create design-forward yet livable residential and commercial spaces that integrate their clients’ own preferences while paying respect to a space’s geography and architecture.
The most important thing you’ve designed to date: Homes for people.
Describe the problem your work solves: Creating spaces that enhance the lives of the people who live in them.
Describe the project you are working on now: We’re designing a number of homes throughout the country.
A new or forthcoming project we should know about: We have a maximalist project in Chicago that we’re really excited about.
What you absolutely must have in your studio: I absolutely can’t work without a candle burning and music playing.
What you do when you’re not working: Running, hiking, and skiing the Utah mountains.
Sources of creative envy: Joseph Dirand and Virginia Woolf.
The distraction you want to eliminate: I don’t wish to eliminate distraction as it helps me to create!
Concrete or marble? Marble.
High-rise or townhouse? Townhouse
Remember or forget? Remember.
Aliens or ghosts? Ghosts.
Dark or light? Light.
