African-Inspired Interior Design: Explore Color and Pattern
Influences
A course by Eva Sonaike , Creative Director
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson I want to share with you some of my greatest influences, those who inspired and still inspire me and help me being continuously creative. ”
In this video lesson Eva Sonaike addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: African-Inspired Interior Design: Explore Color and Pattern. Add a cultural flair to your interiors by exploring colors, patterns, and textures from around the world.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I'll share some of my greatest influences and how they continuously inspire me. With 54 different countries and eight thousand kilometres from north to south and 7.5 thousand kilometres spanning from east to west, Africa is one of the largest and most diverse continents. Africa is full of inspiration from fashion, music, textile tradition, art, traditional culture and contemporary culture. It is really important to not see Africa as a whole. There are very distinct differences between traditions, regions and cultures. I feel the way of life across the continent, t...”
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Course summary for: African-Inspired Interior Design: Explore Color and Pattern
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Architecture & Spaces -
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Decoration, Interior Architecture, Interior Decoration, Interior Design, Spatial Design
Eva Sonaike
A course by Eva Sonaike
Eva Sonaike is the creative director of the London-based interiors firm of the same name. She has been interested in interiors from a young age and grew up surrounded by culture and art before going on to study an MA at the London College of Fashion. She specialized in contemporary African fashion and textiles, and went on to work as a fashion editor for titles including Elle Germany. In 2009, after struggling to find the interiors products she wanted to decorate her home with, she founded her own interiors firm which specializes in luxury, African-inspired home textiles, and soft furnishings
Since then, Eva Sonaike has become an international company with a presence in five different continents. The products Eva designs have been sold in stores including Liberty, Fenwick, and Selfridges, and are regularly featured in interiors and fashion publications.
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