Your name: Anna Spiro
What you do: Interior Designer at Black and Spiro
Your latest project: Designing a wallpaper collection for Porter’s Paints
What is your favourite…
travel destination: Italy in the Summertime
hotel/place to stay: Crosby Street Hotel, NYC
airline: Qantas
magazine: Vogue Living
watchmaker: I don’t wear a watch
luxury goods company: D. Porthault
three people that inspire/excite you:
1) My mother
2) UK Designer Ben Pentreath
design classic: Ticking Stripes
new design: Digitally printed fabrics
type of chair: Old French chairs
meal: An Italian lunch with pastas and salads and warm fresh bread
restaurant: Mudbrick, Waiheke Island New Zealand
drink: Weak Cappuccino
bar: Not yet opened but I’m sure it will be Mr & Mrs G Bar in Brisbane as I have worked on the design and it’s going to be gorgeous
gallery/museum: The Merchant’s House Museum, NYC
book: The Way Home by Jeffrey Billhuber
item in your studio: The framed drawings my children have done for me
artwork: My new painting by Julian Meagher
artist: Cressida Campbell
piece of technology: iphone
What is your creative philosophy? To create spaces which are wonderful, warm, interesting, unique, special, reflective of the inhabitant, comfortable, layered and full of magic.
What does the term ‘Design Hunter’™ mean to you? Searching high and low for one’s own personal Holy Grail in Design