There were a few early creative influences that all came together for me. As a child, I was always making things, studying art, going to pottery classes… a lot was happening in the house! My older sister is a fashion designer, so there were always fashion magazines around the house; seeing my sister work, I understood from a young age that there was such a thing as design, even if I wasn’t necessarily thinking about interior design then. Our father worked in concrete formwork, so that was an influence as well, sparking an interest in architecture and architectural detailing. But it was the amazing sets I would see in films and on television that really ignited my imagination. I’m a child of the 1980s, so I would look at Alexis Carrington’s office in Dynasty and become totally inspired! Those sets conjured a fantasy life and sparked a design obsession that would eventually set me on my career path once I put all of the influences together.