So something a bit exciting happened in my world last week – a project that I have been working on for a few months came to fruition. I was lucky enough to have been invited, as well as my good friend & fellow Melbourne interior designer Jessica Nixon to design & set the Melbourne stage for His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Naturally I said yes – instantly to this invitation!
Jess & I thought it was a great opportunity to showcase some local Australian design, so we worked collaboratively with Jardan Furniture who made all of the beautiful furniture for the event & Philip Stokes Glass who made the gorgeous sculptural vases for the flowers.
And this is how it turned out:
Apparently the rug was gifted to His Holiness and travels with him. I love the colours & it was naturally the starting point for the stage design.
A friend commented that she wanted to turn the rug around. It is protocol for the lotus design to face His Holiness. And now you know!
Jess & I arranged the flowers ourselves – we thought it was fitting to include some lotus flowers in the arrangement!
& here His Holiness is!
(Until I get better photographs of His Holiness sitting on the furniture – my Iphone pictures of the onstage screen are the best I can do!)
& of course I had to include this selfie of Jess & I with our official accreditation badges for the event!
It was quite a thrill to create a client file in my computer named Dalai Lama! It has certainly has been a career highlight & I am very proud of what our collaboration achieved! I’ll be smiling about this one for a while yet!
Psst – All photos are just picture I took myself on my Iphone. Hopefully I will have some through soon that the official photographer took on the day