Nicole Hollis, a leading American interior designer in San Francisco with a new monograph out from Rizzoli (NICOLEHOLLIS: Curated Interiors), describes her approach as less about pattern and color and more about shaping spaces with intention. Here, she speaks frankly about how her dyslexia acts as a creative springboard—a challenge and a gift, underscoring the importance of visual memory—and how she designs by reduction, focusing on forms and materials and how they interact and activate each other. 

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