Dua Lipa holds hands with beau Callum Turner while heading out to Zero Bond on Thursday night (April 25) in New York City.
06.04.2024 - 16:09 / thegavoice.com
On a formerly gray and drab, now sun-drenched weekday morning, I sat down with Nayra to discuss one of my favorite topics, interior design. Nayra is a Brazilian American interior design student studying to get her BFA at Georgia State University. She brings a uniquely Brazilian, secondhand, and community-focused perspective to all her design projects and design opinions. She spoke with Georgia Voice about her design inspirations, her favorite and least favorite trends, sustainability, and more.
Quotes have been edited for clarity.
What are the main paths you can pursue when studying interior design?
Commercial and Residential. Residential would be designing someone’s house with them and commercial design would consist of office layouts, hospitals, hospitality or hotels. People are really hiring interior designers to make functional, loungey workspaces. These open-space offices have been more popular since COVID-19.
They’re trying to bring people back into the office. So, they have couches and everything, but there’s no private space. They have private rooms, but everything is transparent. It’s like, you guys are missing the point. People didn’t just want to stay home just because of comfort, but for privacy too. I’ve heard negative feedback from people who work in these kinds of offices; they miss their cubicle or at least the option of privacy, but I feel like the open thing also has to do with monitoring. Whether they’d like to say that or not, I think it’s to monitor people.
What is your favorite era(s) of interior design?
Oh my God … definitely the art deco in France, that was really important because it helped create the popular ‘70s design styles and the Art Deco
Dua Lipa holds hands with beau Callum Turner while heading out to Zero Bond on Thursday night (April 25) in New York City.
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