Here, we ask designers to take a selfie and give us an inside look at their life.
Age: 37
Occupation: Designer.
Instagram: @rudyguenaire
Hometown: Paris.
Studio location: Paris.
Describe what you make: I make restaurants, apartments, chairs, tables, sofas, lights…
The most important thing you’ve designed to date: Probably this restaurant for which I designed absolutely everything, down to the napkin holders.
Describe the problem your work solves: “Arf, another maximalist restaurant!”
Describe the project you are working on now: I’m designing a great apartment, a few very cool restaurants, and some furniture for crazy, super demanding, and adorable people.
A new or forthcoming project we should know about: A super cool sushi restaurant with a kaiten in Paris.
What you absolutely must have in your studio: I need lots of sunlight, an ever-streaming mug of coffee, my drawing book and my Walderman pencil. That’s it. I don’t believe in computers.
What you do when you’re not working: Looking at the window.
Sources of creative envy: All the outsider artists, philosophers, and poets.
The distraction you want to eliminate: Street ads.
Concrete or marble? Wood.
High-rise or townhouse? Island house.
Remember or forget? Forget when I work, remember when I dream.
Aliens or ghosts? Embracing all mysteries.
Dark or light? Light as the most vital nutriment on earth.
