“I am continually inspired by nature, the notion of asymmetric forms that make up our daily life and give diversity to our visual experience,” says Campion Platt. “People take for granted a lot of design in our culture,” he adds. “They get used to the mundane and the ordinary and don’t demand better function and design. They should demand much more!” Since he founded his New York-based firm in 1990, the architect and interior designer, who grew up in Switzerland, has taken this to heart, designing not only apartments and houses but furniture, lighting, carpets and more. His attention to craft has informed his work for both residential and commercial clients as well as his historically inspired furniture line, Campaign Collection, a functional yet luxurious take on traditional campaign furnishings.

In 2004 he launched the Crystalline Collection, featuring pieces of bleached wood incorporating crystal and glass. What do all these efforts have in common? “They’re clean, simple, rich, textural, innovative and fresh,” he says, emphasizing, “always fresh!” No matter what the project, he urges clients to give him “a written brief of what they want” in terms of “feeling, style, attitude.” Though Platt finds that design has become “more plastic, fun and inviting,” he laments the lack of “proper inexpensive and beautiful shelters for the needy and a truly eco-friendly industry that we so desperately need in construction and interiors.”

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