The Multi Story Thinking Podcast on Interior Design

Rachel is an interior and product designer and……of course….my sister.

Rachel runs Forster Inc (https://www.forsterinc.co.uk/), which is an architectural, interior, furniture and product design agency based in Shoreditch.

She studied Interior design at Kingston University, spent some time in Paris working for the Conran Shop before returning to London to complete her MA in Interior design at The Royal College of Art in London.

Rachel and I set up Forster inc in 1997 after she’s completed Ma and she’s been based in Shoreditch ever since and been responsible for the transformation of spaces helping big businesses, local brands and homeowners realise their vision and achieve their ideal spaces.

In addition to Forster Inc, she runs SortedLondon (https://www.sortedlondon.com/0), a consultancy that helps clients organise and de-clutter their space and she’s been responsible for the design of the latest Hotbox (https://www.hotbox-storage.com/) products, storage solutions that help facilitate agile working in today’s modern workplace.

I spoke to Rachel in Hotbox’s London HQ. Yourworkspace (https://www.yourworkspace.com/) which showcases smart storage and smart workplace furniture from several like-minded suppliers.

Thanks to

Dave Clarke from @iamthehow (http://www.iamthehow.com) for production support and invaluableadvice in the setting up of this Podcast.

My interview with Dave is here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/multi-story-thinking/id1310700802?i=1000455533960

And more info on the Soundart Radio station is here

http://www.soundartradio.org.uk/

Mark Frith for composing the music and all your support and advice along the way.

Kay Hanson for her planning support and co-hosting for these and our educational podcasts for UoP

I’d really like to hear your feedback on the podcast. Leave a comment or get in touch via twitter @multi_story.

Thanks for listening. Bye for now.

In this episode, we meet the architect Adam Parsons.Adam is a director of Architects APG.An architect and a keen surfer, Adam led the design team responsible for the Wave, an inland surfcentre based near Bristol, which opens this month.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamparsonsarchitecture/
https://www.apg-architecture.co.uk

The Wave
https://www.thewave.com/

News about the Wave.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50082566

Thanks to

Dave Clarke from @iamthehow (http://www.iamthehow.com) for production support and invaluableadvice in the setting up of this Podcast.

Mark Frith for composing the music and all your support and advice along the way.

Kay Hanson for her planning support and co-hosting for these and our educational podcasts for UoP

I’d really like to hear your feedback on the podcast. Leave a comment or get in touch via twitter @multi_story.

Thanks for listening. Bye for now.

In this episode, we meet Julienne Webster who owns Industry Publicity. She specialises in marketing and PR support for businesses in the interior, architectural and built environment sector with clients including Viaduct, Toto, Focus and Foscarini.

Julienne Webster. Industry Publicity
https://www.industrypublicity.co.uk/

Images of our Boundary Estate refurbishment are here
http://www.multistorythinking.com/residential

Some bumf about the estate is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Estate

Benjamin Hubert
https://layerdesign.com/#top-page

Thanks to

Dave Clarke from @iamthehow (http://www.iamthehow.com) for production support and invaluable advice in the setting up of this Podcast.

Mark Frith for composing the music and all your support and advice along the way.

Kay Hanson for her planning support and co-hosting for these and our educational podcasts for UoP

I’d really like to hear your feedback on the podcast. Leave a comment or get in touch via twitter @multi_story.

Thanks for listening. Bye for now.

Anna Hart

Anna Hart is a furniture and interior designer based in Cornwall where she runsHart Miller Design (http://www.hartmillerdesign.co.uk/) – and the furniture manufacturing brand MARK Product (http://www.markproduct.com/).

Anna began her career working for furniture supplier Coexistence and later joined workplace consultancy DEGW as a project administrator. She relocated to Cornwall and joined Absolute Design and oversaw the design for Jamie Oliver’s restaurant and social enterprise Fifteen Cornwall.

Hart Miller Design has designed coffee bars for Origin Coffee, work and student spaces and was recently involved with the refurbishment of the Mullion Cove hotel.

Mark Product manufacture and assemble furniture in Cornwall with a showroom in London.

In 2017 Anna won the Product Designer of the Year in the FX Interior Design Awards for her furniture design with Mark Product.

I interviewed Anna alongside my co-host Kay Hanson in a slightly echoey room at The University of Plymouth prior to them both heading off for a summer boat trip party as part of the South West Women in Construction group.

How to be a kick-ass Interior Designer. Come and join us on the Interior Design BA(Hons) course at the University of Plymouth.https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-interior-design

Thanks to

Dave Clarke from @iamthehow (http://www.iamthehow.com) for production support and invaluable advice in the setting up of this Podcast.

Mark Frith(insta @fritzthekat Twitter @markfrith) for composing the music and all your support and advice along the way.

Kay Hanson (insta @kay_v_hanson) for her planning support and co-hosting for these and our educational podcasts for UoP

I’d really like to hear your feedback on the podcast. Leave a comment or get in touch via twitter @multi_story.
Thanks for listening. Bye for now.

In this episode, we meet Ergonomist Kirsty Angerer. Kirsty studied Ergonomics and Human Factors at Loughborough University and has dedicated her career to helping her clients live pain-free and healthy lives

We discover her top three tips for improving your workplace, how exam disappointment led to a career sidestep, how she developed her brand, and how a few simple changes to your desk set up can remedy years of pain and discomfort.

How to be a kick-ass Interior Designer. Come and join us on the Interior Design BA(Hons) course at the University of Plymouth.https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-interior-design

Thanks to

Dave Clarke from @iamthehow (http://www.iamthehow.com) for production support and invaluable advice in the setting up of this Podcast.

Mark Frith(insta @fritzthekat Twitter @markfrith) for composing the music and all your support and advice along the way.

Kay Hanson(insta @kay_v_hanson) for her planning support and co-hosting for these and our educational podcasts for UoP

I’d really like to hear your feedback on the podcast. Leave a comment or get in touch via twitter @multi_story.

Thanks for listening. Bye for now.

First in the series of our Meet the Supplier podcasts, which introduce key suppliers to the Interior Design industry.

Foscarini is an Italian lighting company, originally from Murano and now based close to Venice on the mainland

I spoke with Simona Giroldini, Head of Global Marketing and Communication, in a rooftop garden above the Oneroom gallery, a large Victorian warehouse in Shoreditch, where their Metaphysica exhibition was held.

In our conversation, we discover why a cultural context is important, how a chance image triggered the development of a concept, how traditional craft skills underpin their commercial products and the importance of freedom.

https://www.foscarini.com/en/news/metaphysica-installation-at-london-design-festival/

Look at the Metaphysica story on Instagram @foscarinilamps

Thanks to

Dave Clarke from @iamthehow (http://www.iamthehow.com) for production support and invaluableadvice in the setting up of this Podcast.

Mark Frith for composing the music and all your support and advice along the way.

Kay Hanson for her planning support and co-hosting for these and our educational podcasts for UoP

I’d really like to hear your feedback on the podcast. Leave a comment or get in touch via twitter @multi_story.

Thanks for listening. Bye for now.

Welcome to Podcast no 1, the inaugural, our opener, our maiden trip into the world of Interior design where I’ll be interviewing Naomi Cleaver. Naomi is an interior designer, writer, TV presenter and keynote speaker.

In today's episode we get her definition of Interior Design, find out how she made the transition from Design Agent to running her own practice via TV celebrity designer dome. She reveals her approach to designing student accommodation and we discover her love of constraints and why being Design Led is not something to brag about.

Naomi Cleaver is an interior designer, writer, TV presenter and keynote speaker

As you’ll hear in the Podcast I’ve know Naomi for quite some time. In the late 1990’s she launched Echo Design Agency, which represented amongst others David Adjaye and Olympic torch designers Barber Osgerby and not least…….my old company Forster Inc.

While running Echo Naomi began presenting prime time television shows, such asGrand Design’s: Trade Secrets, Other People’s Houses and was the designer on DIY SOS.

She shifted into running her own design studio (https://naomicleaver.com/) and her award-winning design work on iQ Shoreditch in 2012 established her ability and she’s been specialising in communal living – Student Accommodation, Co-Living, Co-working, Build to Rent, Later Life and Hotel design ever since.

She’s been described as being “responsible for introducing professional interior design to the student housing sector” and Naomi’s work has been described as “warm, eccentric ... clever, idiosyncratic” by Grand Designs Magazine; and “dramatic, witty and just a little bit racy” by Elle Decoration.

I met Naomi in the back room of The Globe Hotel (https://www.theglobetopsham.co.uk/) in Topsham, which is close to her Devon home where she lives with her husband.

How to be a kick ass Interior Designer. Come and join us on the Interior Design BA(Hons) course at the University of Plymouth.https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-interior-design

Thanks to

Dave Clarke from @iamthehow (http://www.iamthehow.com) for production support and invaluable advice in the setting up of this Podcast.

Mark Frith(insta @fritzthekat Twitter @markfrith) for composing the music and all your support and advice along the way.

Kay Hanson(insta @kay_v_hanson) for her planning support and co-hosting for these and our educational podcasts for UoP

I’d really like to hear your feedback on the podcast. Leave a comment or get in touch via twitter @multi_story.

Thanks for listening. Bye for now.

Pre-launch intro and introduction to my co-host Kay Hanson

This is the first test record for my podcast idea