Interview with Yueh-Huang Liao, Design Director of Keystone Interior Design, TW

Our challenge was to remove the original walls between areas without compromising each area’s individuality. To consistently correspond to the stunning mountain and river, we used the white marbles, on which the delicate patterns artistically resemble the water ripples.The grey travertines decorated on the walls simulates a mountain ink painting very well. It was time-consuming and spiritual challenging for us to find the proper decoration materials that fully demonstrate our design ideas.

We participate in design competition not to gain more reputation, but to help us find clarity in our work and move forward. For me, as a creative designer, winning the prize from the Muse Design Awards this year not only boosts our morale, but it also recognizes our natural concept developing the design brand in the early stage.

To those either as students ready to be designers or as participants to the Muse Design Awards, I suggest that you need to be passionate about design.The reason is that there is neither limit nor convention to design. It is necessary to be sensitive to life experiences and aesthetics, thus being open-minded. It is also needed to comprehend and learn the structural and logical elements of the architecture and interior design, so as to broaden your horizon in design.

Up to now, I, as the design director, would not say that we are successful. Why? Because there is always room for improvement in each design project, it is crucial for the design director to learn constantly, to be all-embracing, and to create the more powerful interdisciplinary connections.

Design jobs never stop changing, and we constantly change according to different factors. We, therefore, must entirely integrate the information of design and the needs from clients with open mind. Every client figuratively symbolizes an excellent book, and my job is to comprehensively read his/her mind, so as to design for everyone the exclusive and decent spaces with different design ideas.