LIFE & ST YLE
Barb shares some first and favourite things.
FIRST ADULT HOME? A sweet little weatherboard cottage in East Gippsland, Victoria.
I’M HAPPIEST WHEN… All of the time! Especially when our clients are happy with our work.
ULTIMATE COLOUR PALETTE? I have many and varied favourite colour palettes; my favourite colour is green (9). I LOVE A VASEFUL OF… Gardenias (3) picked from my own prolific hedges! FAVOURITE SCENT? Byredo Tulipe (4). The little roll-on version is great for travelling.
DREAM RESTAURANT TABLE? Club 55 Saint Tropez. Every detail is to die for.
FAVOURITE MEAL? Spanner crab linguine (1). NEXT HOLIDAY DESTINATION? Ideally Morocco (2) but more realistically it will be the Gippsland Lakes. FAVOURITE MOVIE? Gosford Park (5).
I love Maggie Smith’s humour! CAREER HIGHLIGHT Opening our Toorak showroom and studio (6) in 2010 with Alexandra (pictured with Barb, top left). Producing my Ocelot rug collection (7) with Amir Aligorgi (son of late retailer Behruz Aligorgi) and produced by Behruz Studio was pretty special too. WORKING WITH MY DAUGHTER… is wonderful. We work extremely well as a team as we have strengths in different areas of design. It makes for very interesting outcomes. People are often intrigued that we get along so well and are able to make the mother-daughter business combination such a success. I think it’s about celebrating the other’s talents and not taking things too seriously. I’M INSPIRED BY… Books (10). I’m mad for books on everything from designers and decorators to interiors, gardens, fashion, culture and history. Our Amazon cart is forever brimming with new titles! I LOVE COLLECTING… shoes and shells; my new favourite pastime is shell art. I create elaborate mirrors (8), lamp bases, garden pots and I am soon to begin making some shell-encrusted furniture.
“I DON’ T THINK INTERIORS ARE EVER COMPLETE.”