Meet the New York designer transforming Cambridge’s interiors

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Tuesday 14 Jan 2014 12:07 AM

Written byALICE RYAN

Eve Waldron (Pictures by Oliver Perrott and Zoe Klinck)

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They may be inanimate bricks and mortar to the rest of us but buildings speak to designer Eve Waldron. They tell the stories of the people who built them, the people whove worked on them, and the people who live in them now, she explains.

The interior of a home should reveal the personality and history of the inhabitant; the most warm and interesting rooms are those which contain not just beautiful objects, but objects that have meaning. . . Something from a memorable trip, something inherited, something given by a friend.

Good interior design is the glue that sticks all those things together, creating a scheme that looks great but also works on a practical level.

Thats central to Eves design ethos; rooms should, she explains, be far more than a pretty face. Whats the point in creating a room that looks fabulous but doesnt work? I work on a lot of period buildings many of them listed and you have to be very sensitive to the fabric. But equally were not creating a museum: whether its public, commercial or domestic, the space has to fulfil its function too.

Eve has worked on a vast and incredibly diverse range of properties, from hallowed Cambridge colleges to cutting-edge new builds. But her approach is always the same: to stand back and look at the big picture, while also paying plentiful attention to little details.

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Meet the New York designer transforming Cambridge's interiors