Ep 135 - Inside Design with Kandrac and Kole with Guest Mally Skok
As you all know, we are connectors and collaborators and all-around lovers of people. So today we are having a chat with another design friend who we know you will adore – Mally Skok. Originally from South Africa, Mally Skok is a Palm Beach-based interior design and textile artist. Since launching her successful interior design business after moving to the United States, Mally has built a client base that is enamored by her creative mix of layering the new with the old, and transforming homes into comfortable, colorful living spaces. Mally is here to talk about her unique design experience, her creative process for designing fabrics and her new book, Mally’s Little Handbook!
In This Episode:
[05:05] Mally talks about her unique background.
[09:37] Mally’s early experience with interior design and landing her own fabric line .
[15:25] Mally’s many successes and how she comes up with her patterns .
[17:58] Finding inspiration from vintage items and mixing old with new artisan made handmade products.
[25:05] Takeaways from Mally’s book .
[29:27] What’s next for Mally ?
Key Takeaways:
If you aren't feeling inspired, don’t force creativity. Let your inspiration and creativity be organic.
There is so much more beauty when mixing old with the new and really concentrating on artisan-made, authentic hand-touched, and hand-loved products because they make a home.
Mally’s book, ‘Mally's Little Handbook’ touches on so many little things that people don’t talk about but are really, really important in the home, like how to treat guests, how to approach a dinner party and how to really scour a flea market.
Sponsored by Look Walls.
Today’s sponsor is Look Walls. Another designer friend turned us on to Look Walls when we were working on a multi-family project and needed to create a WOW that wasn’t created with typical framed art pieces. We have now used them on many projects and absolutely love how they make our designs unique. Looks Walls is a complete design and manufacturing studio for beautifully custom designed and printed wallcoverings sold to The Trade. At Look, their design studio transforms walls into works of art with custom printing, sunning designs and exquisite materials.
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