This is an amazing
professional designer whose work I have been admiring since I saw it at the
first time.
Candice Olson is
one of the leading professional interior designers in North America. I believe
her interiors have souls. Her choice of materials is absolutely great and all
her projects are filled with personality and excellent style.
First I saw her show
on Divine Design Channel and I was so impressed how she approaches the
designing process and selection of materials. And of course her sketches -
simply the masterpieces! She has become my idol and her professional level is
my purpose to intent.
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She has an amazing energy and it is obvious how
much she loves her job, so she inspires me to create ...
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Candice Olson (born October 27, 1964 in Kenora,
Ontario, Canada), received a bachelor's degree from the University of Calgary
in Canada, at the same time, she played volleyball for the National women's
volleyball team in Canada. After graduation, Candice went to Toronto, where she
attended the School of Interior Design at Ryerson University. After graduation,
Olson worked for several years in the best interior design firms in Canada. In
1994, having received the necessary experience, Candice started her own design
practice, Candice Olson Design.
Candice Olson first appeared on television after a Canadian broadcaster has represented
one of its award-winning design projects. In 2001, a Canadian TV channel W
Network hired Candice Olson as a presenter of their design and decoration TV show called
"Divine Design with Candice Olson".
 Her interiors are always comfortable without too much glamour and all the items are in place. |
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I admire the way she picks up textures,
combines materials and colors...
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In 2005, Candice launched her own collection
called ‘The Candice Olson Collection’,
which consistsed of home decoration items. In 2011 a new TV show called Candice
Tells All appeared.
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Thanks to her, I fell in love with the red color of the wood, which before that, didn't like ...
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Her work shows all her personality I presume - bright,
lively and penetrating mind with mild irony. Candice itself defines his style
as "a fusion of traditional form, scales and proportions with the clean,
fresh and simple beauty of modern design."
She
has released several books by now and I’m a happy owner of some of them but
still need to add two more books to my collection.
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| My little collection... |
In my work I am quite often inspired by her designs, her
manner of arranging the furniture in the room, decorating walls and playing with
light. My graphic drawing has evolved
thanks to her sketches, she became my mentor in the design world. At
first I mostly copied her a bit but afterwards,
at some point, I developed my own techniques and even started to improve them.
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My technique has improved with time...
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Unfortunately, in my country manual design
sketching is highly undervalued. But I am a large promoter of this way of
working and always present to my customers manually drawn sketches. I think the manual drawing has more soul and
often looks much more ''alive and real'' than all those 3D models. Candice
proves this statement by showing the amazing manual sketches that much better
than all those impersonal 3D images in the design studios.
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You can see some
other works of Candice by clicking here
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I have a dream or even a goal - I
would like to meet this legendary person, visit some of her lectures and even
work with her. May be it is not easy to achieve but as I believe that all our
thoughts can materialize, I am sure that
by having such extremely high,
‘unrealistic’ goals and working a
lot every person can make any goal very real.
The main thing here is faith - faith in yourself, strong believe that you are really able to get what you want and
even more.
Candice became my idol and source of my professional inspiration. And do you have any person who inspires you, people to look up to?
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