Shelley Walker, a Monaco-based interior designer and founder of Shelley Walker Design, joins NEWS.MC to talk about her work with clients in the Principality and beyond, and why Monaco is home.
Born in England, Walker came to France at the age of four and to Monaco at seven. She recalls art lessons at Pavillon Bosio on Wednesday afternoons, training in Brussels in interior design and decorative paint effects, then returning to Monaco, working for five years with a Monegasque friend before opening her own studio. Her work is mainly residential, in Monaco and in her clients’ homes in Switzerland, New York and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.
She describes a close, often long-term bond with clients, some of whom she has worked with for 15 years, and the overlap between luxury residential work and yacht interiors around the September yacht show. One of her proudest projects, she says, was creating a top-floor terrace with a view of the sea and the Rock for a Swiss client on Boulevard de Suisse. She prefers sketches and physical mood boards to 3D renderings and AI, looks back at a more village-like Monaco and the demand around Mareterra, and says that although she loves to travel, she is always happy to come home to the Principality.
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Key moments
- 0:18 Growing up in Monaco
- 1:24 A personal relationship with clients
- 3:29 Yacht decoration and the yacht show
- 4:03 A terrace with a view of the Rock
- 5:08 When Monaco felt like a village
- 8:17 Why Monaco is home
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