Paola Moretti
Writer
‘Both when I write and design,’ reflects Paola, ‘I need to find the genius loci, the core of a space.’ It’s a paring impulse that draws on John Pawson’s sense of ‘a point where you can neither add nor remove – though I’m not quite so purist’. Her focus for this issue is a Tunisian project by the great minimalist (page 66), one which is ‘at once so contemporary and so time-steeped, it’s as if it’s always been there’.
