Being a good designer isn’t just about putting the right stuff together: it’s about the way you see the world. A really important concept in design, and one that’s perhaps hard to explain without concrete examples, is the idea of balance. The objects in a composition (in this case, a room) are always in tension with one another. It’s the contrast between opposites — black and white, smooth and textured, heavy and light — that makes things interesting and, ultimately, beautiful.
