Rubbi Design Studio Co.

I am passionate about design and I have been since I was a wee child. One of my earliest exposures to art and design was with one of my childhood friends…we would take a huge sheet of paper and draw a war scene on it…my half of the page against his. He would have his army men, tanks and helicopters and I would draw canons, machine guns and paratroopers jumping out of jets shooting up his side of the page. I’m not really sure what we were trying to accomplish there but it had something to do with the inevitable mortality of stick figures. I clearly remember drawing these epic battles with a black pen (my mother wouldn’t let me use a red pen because “it made the reality of war a little too real”).

My natural yearning to draw made me gravitate towards design and was ultimately one of the things that brought me to the field of architecture. The environment that I was raised in, along with my life experiences, have made a huge impact on they way I perceive design. I find it interesting to see how the paths of other architects have shaped their style and the way that they design. As a result, I think that an architect’s design sensibilities tell a lot about who they are. I often wonder what type of furniture other architects have in their house? What kind of car do they drive? What kind of art do they own? Would going shopping for a rug with them be just as painful as my wife says it is with me (“no honey, that carpet is leaning a bit towards the cool gray side but maybe with the incandescent light bulbs in the bedroom it might look okay”).