RETREATS : RESIDENTIAL DESIGNS OF MONIQUE FRENCH

WELCOME Form. Colour. Texture. These are fundamental. These are defining elements in good design.Home. Residence. Retreat. Our foundation. The physical place that gives us spiritual space. Where we retire, reconnect, recharge. Whether a work-in-progress or a perfected work, whether 100 square feet or 1,000 it should make us feel held and hopeful, protected and privileged, empowered and energized.Touch, sight, being. The ultimate success of interior design, the ultimate success of functionality and decoration of a space is its ability to simultaneously inspire and relax, make one feel special and yet belong.Love, enjoyment, compulsion. I love design ,architecture, art. This is a certainty born out of a constant gravitation to all things design as for long as I have memory.From imagining, to experimentation, to execution. It is a simple and humble undertaking to see something and see it as it can be in the place it should be, to through work and will journey with a room to become "a room of 'ones' own" , sometimes before and sometimes after meeting the intended 'one', and to experience the joy when the things and the room and the one come together. This book shows the arrival at the end of that journey for several residential projects completed in a tropical climate. Read more