Imagine you want to cook something nice for the grown-ups and need some advice. You think I am a good cook and ask me if I would like to help you with your project. We will brainstorm ideas and draw up a plan, which you will carry out as independently as possible.

You go to the market and buy vegetables, spices, a fish, cheese and fruit.

In the kitchen, you prepare the vegetables, chop the herbs and brush the fish with lemon oil. You sprinkle a little salt over it and place a sprig of tarragon inside the belly. You are not sure, so you ask how long you should leave the fish in the oven and whether you should roast the vegetables or boil them. On my advice, you pop it in the oven.

Once you have arranged the cheese on a nice platter and garnished it with halved walnuts and a small pot of truffle honey, it is time to prepare the dessert: the mango crème. As I advised, you have picked up a tin of mango pulp, a lime and some cream from the Indian shop. Whip the cream (half the amount of mango) and fold it into the pulp using a spatula. Add the lime juice and, for your aunt, a dash of Grand Marnier – and you are done.

Now you have cooked a meal all by yourself, learnt from my tips and made great strides in your cooking.

A lot :

Finding a theme
Researching
Selecting
Material, texture, feel
Colour
Transforming form and theme into a surface design and visualising this in the space
Creating patterns
Designing an object
Presenting.
As a student, I explored the phases of a process-oriented design project. As a mentor and style consultant, I guide and advise on such processes as a specialist.

I had to move house unexpectedly and now have to start all over again.

Not important.

Railway stations, airports, strolling through oriental souks and Mediterranean or Asian markets, fine dining, speciality cocktails, music, music...

AHV, BVK, reserves, fees... but I also often work pro bono.

As a mentor in a one-to-one meeting. As a style consultant with one or more clients.

I have friends who share my interests. I attend trade fairs such as the Salone del Mobile Milano, architecture and design biennales, Art Basel, and am a regular guest at the chapter meetings of the ICF (International Coach Federation) and the events organised by ZHAW Mentoring pro Diversity.

Nowhere. I am completely at peace with myself.

When the mentee or client has met their expectations and achieved their goals.

The sunset in the Caldera of Oia, Santorini.

Refinement, elegance, style.

Who still reads poetry today?