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Business Daily meets: Kelly Hoppen

Business Daily

BBC

Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

We meet one of the world's leading interior designers.

Kelly Hoppen finds design solutions for celebrities including the Beckhams, but also works with luxury brands and businesses too.

And she is enthusiastic about people achieving good design on a budget. She talks about growing up in South Africa, and explains how music inspires her work.

Producer/presenter Dougal Shaw.

(Image: Kelly Hoppen. Credit: BBC)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Hannah and I'm very excited to be hosting What in the World a new daily podcast from the BBC World Service, where we try to help you make sense of the world around you, of the big things that are happening, the small things that are happening and everything in between. Search for What in the World, wherever you get your BBC podcasts, and hit subscribe.

0:23.6

Hello and welcome to Business Daily Meets. I'm Dougal Shaw. Today I'm in Hammersmith in West London

0:29.7

to meet one of the world's leading interior designers. I can visualize a room before it's even

0:35.8

designed on paper and I can move things around in my head. Don't ask me how I can, but I can visualize a room before it's even designed on paper and I can move things around in my head.

0:39.1

Don't ask me how I can, but I can.

0:41.5

I've come to a studio where her team is busy pouring over the latest design concepts and materials.

0:47.5

This is the nerve centre of her global design business.

0:50.7

Often with certain clients, I say to them, if you wanted your room to sound like a piece of

0:56.7

music, what would it be? And some people don't understand what I'm saying. And some people go,

1:02.7

oh, 100%. Say a little prayer by Burt Baccarat. I get that.

1:06.6

I get that. Kelly Hoppin finds design solutions for the homes of famous individuals like David and Victoria Beckham,

1:21.2

but she also works with big commercial clients like luxury yacht designers or airlines like British Airways.

1:28.9

However, she also believes successful interior design can be achieved on any budget. Everybody should have a fabulous

1:35.9

home and that doesn't mean to say you have to spend millions on it. It's about looking within

1:40.4

what you have, how you can move a room around, change a cushion from this room to another,

1:46.2

take the pictures down from the wall, rehang them somewhere else. I love doing that.

1:51.0

Lots more from interior designer Kelly Hoppin coming up on today's Business Daily Meets.

1:57.9

So we're in your design studios of your global business. Tell me what kind of things happen here?

2:04.9

Well, first of all, it is a proper working design studio. I think people think it's going to be very slick at like the houses that we design and homes we design.

2:13.2

But I love the kind of artisan feel of the studio, which is thousands of samples and people running

2:18.6

around designing. What happens here is we create dreams for people. That's the way I put it,

2:24.4

whether it's a private home, whether it's a private yacht, whether it's a hotel, whether it's a

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