My name is Brian Wolf. I'm the founder and creative director of Design by Wolf and dogfather of Charming the Cha Cha. I have been looking enough to be working in the industry for over ten years. That was after a previous career as a concept pianist. So it was a bit of a feature in design for me but always with an interest in arts and in design. I've worked in cases like Sydney, New York, LA, working currently in New York, in Paris, Barcelona, also more properties in New York. I'm very lucky to have a mother who values my opinion. And every time she was redecorating a room in the house I was asked, did I like the color, did I like the fabrics, did I approve of the furniture layouts. It can often be hard to find ways of marketing yourself as a private residential interior designer. For natural reasons a lot of our clients are protective over the homes and the primary residences. If you visit my website, designbywolf.com and click on projects you'll be able to see some examples of my work. And if you click on the videos you'll also be able to hear me play some piano. I think as a residential interior designer it's important for me to remain agile in my approach to every project. Every client's needs is different and every project is unique. There isn't a one solution for every project. Playfulness and understated luxury Some might say my passion for lighting is borderline obsessive. As an interior designer I rely heavily on lighting to bring the best elements of my design schemes to life. It also allows my client the end user to change the use of the space throughout the day with their lighting systems. As an interior designer I have a passion and love for lighting but it is primarily focused on decorative lighting. I look to the support of my lighting designers at John Cullen to help me create a cohesive scheme and bring the architectural lighting and the decorative lighting together. I think it's important to trust in the specialist that you're working with. If you decide to hire a lighting designer and to bring them into a project it's important to value their expertise and take the advice that they give you when designing and laying out a scheme. Honestly I don't. Every project and every client is unique. I do like to bring old into every scheme and a great way of doing that I find is using decorative lighting so I will look to locations like Alfie's market or first dibs which is an online platform or the markets in Paris. On any of my travels I'll find unique pieces and sometimes they're sitting in storage units that I'll have for years and then I'll find the right project that I can incorporate them into. It's always the ones that you can't talk about but imagine absolute oceanfront. Unintro reviews from every room in the house, 35,000 square foot and an unlimited budget. I get asked this question a lot and the answer is always the same. I'd love the opportunity to work with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. I think the opportunities there to blend historic British heritage and a modern fashionista sense of style would be a great opportunity. I think being an interior designer has to be one of the most exciting and enjoyable careers out there. I can't imagine doing anything else. Every day is unique, every project is different and every kind of personality and requirements has a different need. I love being able to draw inspiration from the various suppliers that I work with, my trips abroad, the various trade shows, my own personal travels and the experiences I get when I'm out with my friends whether that be a boutique bar or a restaurant or a new concert that we go to, a new artist that we see and we get to see the set design and the stage design and the costume design. Coming to locations like Gwynnevere on the King's Road, famous for their its eclectic mix of products and styles is a great source of inspiration for me. Actually the bronze cast seba in the back of this shot, you might recognise for my entrance plenth for decorics this year. Coming in here it's like a treasure trove. I get ideas and inspirations from my projects. I think it can be dangerous to follow trends to a tea as an interior designer. I think it's more important to have a breath of knowledge and understand how you can incorporate some of the current trends with trends from the past. Just the design quarters that go to location for me. As a designer I come to locations to look for inspiration but it's a great place to pay my clients for sorting days and a way for them to find their own inspiration. With over 30 brands, CDQ is a great place for me to come and walk through various ideas and concepts with my clients. Coming to show them like the Tom Fockner showroom here on Lutz Road where there is a range of finishes and materials for them all to see in real life and touch, gives them that tactile experience and really does help speed up the design process. I find myself drawn to brands like Tom Fockner because of the blend of historic craftsmanship, techniques and modern design. Tom has managed to seamlessly combine the two in the production and design of his exclusive pieces and as a result I end up specifying him in a lot of my projects. As an interior designer I have seen an increased demand in clients asking for seamless transitions between the indoor living spaces and the outdoor living spaces. We have to work with the landscape architects and landscape designers, the contractors and the architects on the project to come up with a solution that fits the client's brief. We're working with indoor environment and also the outdoor environment with natural light so trying to create that seamless transition and those unique spaces for the client can often be difficult. Working in the luxury indoor residential market in London and abroad we often see that clients are more cautious about their privacy and sharing information about their projects. So a lot of the projects that we're working on we can't actually talk about. That said, I'm especially proud of one of the projects we completed this year and that's the project on our website referred to as the St. John's Wood project which won several awards during LDF this year and we actually worked with John Cohen on the license schemes for that product. I don't. My days can be really long and very tiring. I get to work with very interesting people but my days also follow solving complicated problems and dealing with clients both here and abroad working on various times on. So it's important for me to find a way to detach from work and relax. Having had a previous career in music naturally I'm drawn to elements that are music-driven or arts-driven so the theatre are going to places like the Regluster in Clirkenwell for their gospel brunch in the Sunday with friends is a great way for me to unwind and relax. Oh I'm all alone. You can do the outtakes at the end of the video. I'm all alone with funny pieces. How many takes Brian Talk to? I'm like, I'm scared. I'm fine. I'm working with someone like the chick and chick. The chick and chick? That's the one. I hire life in the sun. That's half speed of all the other questions. Give me more Christmas. Yeah! What do I do? It's like this. Basically by YouTube. Yeah! Yeah! And this goes to theatre. I'm cheeky next to out. I'll try to cheeky getaways with my friends. I'm going to wait off track now. But the videos you'll also get me here. Are you also hearing me play? I'm not. Let's have that one again. And if you have a look at some of the videos you'll also get me to hear. You'll also hear me play some of. Oh! Look! Perfect! You're not much in. Which camera was that one? This one. And the light is okay. Yeah. You did it right. Here we go. Take 392. Um. Yeah. The same is her. Yeah. Yeah. The same is her. You