Some of the biggest authorities in the wellness/design sphere came together in the beautifully impressive Karndean showroom to pool their ideas on what it means to live in spaces that can make you feel healthier. Designers Portia Fox, Camilla Roger of Shalini Misra and Elina Grigoriou — who literally wrote the book on the subject (her influential Wellbeing in Interiors was published in 2019) — pooled their ideas in front of a packed standing-room-only audience who had come for this very special Livingetc In Session, our series of seminars and inspirational talks.
They all agreed that wellness in design has come a long way since being about 'just' adding a home gym or sauna, and was now about designing spaces that manage stress levels, calm and uplift you, that nurture you in some way. 'When you have a piece of wearable tech like an Oura ring, you can literally see how your surroundings affect you, showing you how stress can spike when you're in a place that doesn't nurture you,' Camilla said. And these are my five key takeaways, simple ideas that improve not just how a room looks, but how it feels and - crucially - how it makes you feel, too.
