EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
WITH TIM MUTTON
nique, luxurious and rather rebellious would be the adjec-
tives we would use to describe Blacksheep’s work. Leading
what it is one of the world’s most prominent interior design studios
of the moment, Tim sat down with us for a rather unfiltered exclu-
sive interview, in which we spoke a bit of everything.
Recognising he was ‘’one of those kids in school that didn’t perform
particularly well’’, Tim quickly found a job at the age of 17, working
in a kitchen. Starting from loading the dishwasher and ending up
behind the bar, he found something he loves: serving people. For
the moment, it was everything he wanted to do. Even though Tim
was happy, his father wasn’t particularly pleased with his son’s cur-
rent occupation. Hence, an ultimatum. His father, a former mili-
tary man, said his son had three choices: going to college, getting
an apprenticeship or joining the army. Thinking about his future in
bartending, He got himself into art and design and he found his true
talent. A professor once even told him that he had the talent, he just
needed to focus. Those simple, yet marking words made Tim realize
that his future was indeed bright.
“It was the first time anyone said anything
kind of remotely positive and I certainly
realized I was in a different community,
in a creative community. I finished
the course in the second year, got a
distinction, got the highest mark and it
just really went from there.’’
In a way, this was Tim, a true black sheep whose biggest satisfac-
tion was to prove someone wrong. We get it, nothing’s more satis-
fying than achieving something that someone said it was beyond
our reach. Tim characterises the studio with having the rebellious
attitude that was imported from his own life. He did give an ex-
ample of when this attitude was indeed applied, a fashion brand
project for some clients famous to be, let’s say, complicated. ‘’Don’t
work for them, they’ll never pay you, your project won’t be a suc-
cess and it won’t last anything more than three years’’ were some
of the words Tim heard, but he did it anyway. The result? A huge
success, he got paid and it lasted over six years.
