Interior designer Christian Liaigre shares tips on freshening up your home
The French interior designer, favoured by Rupert Murdoch, Calvin Klein and Karl Lagerfeld, talks to Kavita Daswani about being inspired by Asia and reveals tricks to revitalise your home.
"I have worked more or less all over the world but there are still a few places missing - such as Rome, with its rich, ancient culture, or South Africa or Patagonia [in South America] with their fabulous wildlife."
"All the projects were done for and with pleasure. Today, all the technical problems are solved by engineers. Our only challenge is to have meetings with our clients who are among the busiest people in the world."
"Each book is a concentration of what we can do in different parts of the world. This book … features two sailboats that have received awards. Many of our clients have several homes and they want them to vary in appearance and decoration. The Nantucket and Malibu projects featured in the book belong to the same clients, and the feeling and atmosphere we have created in each is different."
"For the last 35 years, Southeast Asia has been a source of inspiration as I like the aesthetics and value of tradition [in this region]. Work remains the greatest source of inspiration - designing, discovering by accident through your own drawings a flaw, an idea that hits off another which will give the project personality."