Art and Living

Robin Baron can find inspiration in any and everything.  With no defined look, her concentration is solely on the client.

From “The Art of Design: Designers to Watch in 2009″, By Lisa Chensvold:

ROBIN BARON – New York designer Robin Baron doesn’t maintain any libraries.  Not for fabrics, colors, plans – nothing.  “It makes both me and my staff lazy.”  Baron says.  A successful designer designs for the client, and no two are alike.  “If I could tell a prospective client what to do with a space, it would be something I had done before.”  And then, of course, it wouldn’t be about the client.

Baron likens the process of working with a client to interpreting and then translating a language.  She takes her clients shopping and observes how they respond to things, and it’s often on a very visceral level.  For private homes, Baron wants above all for her client to feel “cocooned-in” and safe, whether the look is traditional and ornate or modern and sparse.  Making a house feel like a sanctuary, she says, is a much more profound purpose than making a house beautiful.

Loathe to be defined by any one look, Baron opens herself up to inspiration in all ways and in all places; from the angles in a piece of architecture to a pocketbook to a color used in a print ad.  She says she is even inspired by her clients, who influence makes her see familiar things in new ways.