The Spanish designer is the creative mastermind behind the new Fritz Hansen showroom in Singapore. Here, he discusses his fruitful partnership with the Danish furniture brand and how it shapes the interiors of this store
Unlike some of his peers, Jaime Hayón did not grow up in a family of designers. His father was a jeweller and his mother worked in the restaurant business. “My parents still don’t really understand what I’m doing,” shares the Spanish designer candidly. “My mother would go to an installation in which you have so many rooms and she’ll be like, ‘Where did you get that idea from?’ She’ll get really lost.”
His two young children, on the other hand, are growing up surrounded by Hayón’s creations as well as iconic furniture he and his photographer wife collected.
“Maybe I would have liked to be like them when I was younger,” he says, almost wistfully. “They’ve lived around good furniture since they were born. That affects your life quite a lot… Children copy you; my kids are drawing all the time now. If I’m drawing, they draw. They’ve been raised in a creative environment; whatever they want to be in life, that’s up to them.”