Geoffrey Bawa’s Colombo Home and Office
Dear customers, from August 1st, 2024, we will be taking a one year sabbatical...
We continue this two-part blog post on the important role that our homes can play in the dual process of differentiation and integration that is so essential to human flourishing.
There is a fundamental tension in human existence between our individual needs and our need for belonging to something beyond ourselves. In this two part blog post we explore this tension and how our homes can be of service to us within our self-development and our deep innate desire to not just live but to thrive.
In a recent interview, I was asked to state what my prediction for the next big trend in interior décor would be – my reply was individuality. As our possibilities expand and the range of what is acceptable and tolerated grows, so too will our desire to create spaces that reflect this diversity.
We have more choices than any humans have ever had before us. While this can be viewed as, and indeed is, a blessing in some sense, in other ways the options available to us are so numerous that making decisions has become time-consuming and overwhelming.
There is a kind of magic hidden within an intentional pause...
In challenging times such as the ones we find ourselves in, it is easier than ever to scoff at the frivolity of aesthetics and beauty and dismiss their pursuit as self-indulgent. And yet at the same time, it is precisely in the most trying of periods that the true redemptive qualities of aesthetics and beauty can offer a healing balm where little else can.