EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
WITH KAREN HOWES
fter being part of a completely stacked Davidson Studio, we
sat with Karen on a contemporary dining table that set the
mood perfectly for an interesting, compelling and a quite education-
al conversation. We started off by discussing her professional and, of
course, the emotional path in design. Karen told us the Studio has
been up and running for 25 years now, and that she even lectures in-
terior design to a global scale, but these opportunities were quite rare
when she started. She started by selling properties in Westminster,
London and her interior design path began with the purchase of one
flat, by the age of 19. With that flat, she learned it all. She learned
how to set a wallpaper, how to make curtains, how to decorate.
Adding this to the fact that she was living with Martin Waller, the
founder and owner of the world-renowned furniture store Andrew
Martin, we can see how the love for interior design came to be. -
In Karen’s opinion, Taylor Howes is defined by its core and sup-
portive values. Passion, honesty and kindness. That’s how one of
the world’s greatest interior designers defines the studio. When
they have the opportunity to work with clients who share the same
values with them, the process becomes smooth, as if they’re on a
design journey together.
“I think that as a team we work onto
what our core values are. And when we
work on projects with clients that have
the same values as we do, it’s a very
smooth and interesting process.”
For Karen, sharing these same values is an extremely important
project-accepting criteria. In the designer’s opinion, the best projects
come to existence once you share an emotional connection with the
client when you can feel their will and just go with the flow.
- So, you have some project-accepting criteria.
