A Place To Talk

In today’s episode Luis De Oliveira, founder of De La Espada, meets Deborah Spencer, Founder of Design Junction.  They discuss how this contemporary design show started and ended up talking about how dyslexia has helped with project management.

In today’s episode Luis De Oliveira, founder of De La Espada, meets interior designer Brian Woulfe inside one of his latest projects. They discuss how having vision boards can be challenging as that often gets in the way of a rewarding design process.

In today’s episode Luis De Oliveira, founder of De La Espada, meets designer Matthew Hilton in his studio in Crystal Palace, a neighborhood in South London. They first met eleven years ago, and even then Matthew had a reputation for honesty in the world of design and for how he approaches the design process, like an artisan views his craft, patiently and without fuss.

In today’s episode Luis De Oliveira joins Stephen Briars, Creative Director at the Conran Shop, London’s leading luxury retailer. From its background working for paul Smith, Louis Vuitton and Urban Outfitters, the conversation bounces between the worlds of fashion and design, setting differences, discovering unexpected links, looking at how two very different industries can still have lessons to teach each other.

This is Luis De Oliveira founder of De La Espada and host of ‘A Place To Talk’, a series of conversations that take us to new places. Starting out with no formal hidden agenda, we talk to our guest and engage our listeners, by going with the flow we walk in digressions and new turns. We’ve reached out to wide range of people representing different points of view within the design world. As an industry, we are often seen as self-referencial rather than inclusive. In this moment in time, defined by the broad sharing of ideas through new channels, we saw the opportunity to create honest dialogs. We aim for nothing more than a breath of fresh air, some humour and hopefully some good ideas to enrich the conversations. So sit down, and let us take you to new places.