I think of my father in many ways.

For a large part of my life, he was a protector.

At work, I grew up watching him do extraordinary things. His instinct for colour, design, texture I still don’t fully understand it.

In 2011, I took a trip with him to Hannover, Germany for the Domotex rug fair which was the largest rug show in the world at the time. That trip stayed with me.

I saw the kind of work he was putting out.

I saw him win for the best modern collection.

And I saw how far ahead he was from everything else around.

That trip changed how I looked at this industry.

It stopped feeling like a business.

And started feeling like a way of creating art.

What has stayed constant is what I’ve learnt from him.

And what I’m still trying to understand everyday that I work along side him.