For the first conversation, Elisabetta Rizzato meets Cape Town-based interior designer Kim Williams.
Together, we’ll look at contemporary design in South Africa and explore questions such as:
What is changing in interiors and the way people want to live?
How are global trends interpreted locally?
Which materials, colours and design directions feel relevant now?
What can an international audience learn from Cape Town and South African design?
A conversation between two places, two perspectives and two ways of reading what is happening in design now.
Founder and Creative Director of Kim Williams Interior Design Agency
Kim Williams is an award-winning interior designer, behavioural strategist, author and speaker based in Cape Town. As Founder and Creative Director of Kim Williams Design, she combines design and behavioural insight to create spaces shaped around people, context and changing ways of living.
Her work spans residential, commercial, healthcare, hospitality and development projects in South Africa and internationally. She is also the author of My Yellow Room and Chair of the Management Committee of the Institute of Interior Design South Africa for South Africa and the Middle East.
Founder of ITALIANBARK® and TRENDBARK
Elisabetta Rizzato is an interior architect and colour and trend expert based in Italy.
She founded ITALIANBARK® in 2013, developing it into an internationally recognised independent design platform focused on interiors, colour, materials and emerging ways of living. Through TRENDBARK, her professional trend intelligence platform, Elisabetta works with brands, studios and design professionals through research, publications, strategic advisory, talks and education. Her collaborations include international design brands, institutions and events across Europe and beyond.
LAYERED FUTURES is an open, peer-to-peer conversation across places and design cultures, connecting local knowledge with international perspectives.
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