Design Hunter™ Q+A with Fiona Lynch

Doherty Lynch’s Fiona Lynch shares her design hunter insight with habitusliving.

Your name: Fiona Lynch

What you do: Interior Design director at Doherty Lynch

Your latest project: Grove House in Hawthorn Melbourne

What is your favourite…

travel destination: Locally Healesville – where our recent project Finnon Glen is located and is our family weekender.

Overseas - Peggy Guggenheim Venice. Dream destination – Finland have plans to go this year

hotel/place to stay:  Royal Mail in Dunkeld for its views and great food

airline:  China Air just for the dumplings

magazine:  Art Almanac 

watchmaker: I’m not much of a watch wearer however I have a fantastic wall clock by Diamantini Domeniconi

luxury goods company: Luxury? Not really a luxury girl. However I do love my new earrings by Oscar de la Renta.

design classic:  Joe Colombo floor lamp Coupe 3321 & Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe.

new design:  Architect Charles Wright who has just completed the Botanical Gardens visitors centre in Cairns

favourite type of chair: Alvar Aalto’s Paimio chair Artek 41

meal: Sausages & mash cooked by my sons Conor & Patrick

restaurant: Gill’s Diner Melbourne

drink: Peach Bellini

bar: Aylesbury rooftop bar

gallery/museum: Tate Modern & seeing Anish Kapoor’s installation run across the length of the gallery foyer space. Also would love to visit New York to see Kazujo Sejima’s new Museum of Contempory Art.

book: Reading ‘Then Again’ Diane Keaton a memoir

item in your studio: 1967 Vico Magistretti timber table from Geoffrey Hatty 

artwork: ‘Indoor lighting for My Father’ by Jessica Stockholder for her use of painted hay bales. 

artist: Painter Helen Frankehaler

piece of technology: In our studio we’ve recently discovered Tumblr. 

What inspired you to be a designer? Seeing ‘River House’ by Peter McIntyre for the first time as a kid it was like no other house in my neighbourhood

Who are three people that inspire/excite you:

     1)  Mardi Doherty my design partner

     2) Lighting designer Volker Haug

     3)  Sculptor John Chamberlain – I wish I could fly to New York to see his retrospective at the Guggenheim finishing this week

What is your creative philosophy?  There is so much to learn from iconic artists & designers and so many talented creatives to be inspired by, especially here in Melbourne.

What does the term ‘Design Hunter’™ mean to you? Someone who seeks out new ways of thinking, seeing & creating

Check out ‘Finnon Glen’ with interiors done by Doherty Lynch in Habitus 16, out now.