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The team behind re:place believe their clients are more creative than they believe and the design team help bring those ideas out. They create their client’s style not their own. A holistic approach is important and the Eastern design principles of Vastu and Feng Shui are integral to each design. They also use recycled, found,natural and environmentally friendly materials in their projects. Beautiful and aware, great combination.

Thad Hayes embraces the period and the modern, simple and significant. His timeless spaces are clean, sharp and elegant. Subtle, inspiring, timeless and delightful.

Philip Galanes was an entertainment lawyer, Chief Operating Officer for a children’s media company, and is now an author, avid furniture collector and consults on interior design projects. After looking at his portfolio, I think he has finally found his calling.

Rigorous design standards blended with a sense of humour. Front Studio’s principles Yen Ha and Michi Yanageshita pursue a combination of art and architecture. Intensive exploration of their clients’ needs and site constraints is balanced by their obsessive pursuit of Lunch. The girls and I swapped flickr contacts a few weeks ago. I’m impressed by their design talent and their intensive pursuit of the answer to “what’s for lunch?”

A giant of the American design scene Vicente Wolf. Key words are integrity, simplicity, beauty. His rooms are sensuous cocoons, cool and luminous, sublime and seductive. I think I’m running out of superlatives.