Describe what you do.
We are a small studio, but we do projects globally, and it gives us a global mindset—so that means being able to work with people, clients and fabricators in different parts of the world, and bridge [the gap between] people who wouldn’t normally be connected.
Did your upbringing influence your career path?
My family is in motor manufacturing; my brother works with my dad. There are other family members who work for the business—there is an unspoken rule that you’re expected to. When I said I wanted to be an architect or an interior designer, they said “It’s not going to make any money; how are you going to support yourself ?”—all that traditional [way of thinking]. But I would visit factories
