PRODUCTION
Interior Design
Our interior designers curate both corporate and private home spaces and are known for elegant, liveable environments and decorative arts expertise. Whether reimagining a downtown loft, an Upper Sandton Classic Mansion, or a Corporate Office Space, JG’s full-service Johannesburg-based design team creates interiors that are spacious, light-filled, comfortable–and, above all, visually interesting and aesthetically pleasing. We mesh our clients’ needs and tastes with expertise in all that relates to the creation of home and office.
Art Advising
Two of our favourite elements are fine art and objects.
Every surface of an interior is important, but the alchemy of design comes into play when the designer introduces and orchestrates fine art and objects, humble or precious, simple or ornate. Art in the interior is the great transformer, the secret formula for achieving superlative design.
The selection and placement of an art in an interior is extremely important, possible the single most important decision a designer will make. You can arrange and rearrange things almost infinitely, creating fresh, startling design perspectives and tableaux. The talismanic power of an object is enhanced by its position and the objects adjacent to it. The whole, forged by the intuitive selection and arrangement of objects in an interior, is exponentially greater than the sum of its parts.
We often assist my clients in purchasing art—in some cases forming a nucleus on their collection—and we encourage clients to buy the very best art and objects they are willing to afford, but caution that if everything they purchase is at the highest level, the provocative potential—the poetry—of juxtaposition is neutralized.
The quality of interior design cannot be quantified; it does not have a price tag. Art and artifacts evoke a moment in time. It doesn’t matter if it’s “original”; it might be a nineteenth-century plaster cast of a Roman bust or the real thing. A beautiful object possesses an aura, an energy you cannot fake.
