Design Rules, and How to Break Them!

4 August 2024

Episode S4E8:

While true innovators are rare, they contribute to moving society forward in previously unexplored ways. In international interiors, product design, as well as fashion, one truly innovative designer’s name pops to the top of the list: Sue Timney. She recently received her first senior living commission for luxury retirement from Wallacea Living in the UK. In this episode, Lori and Sue discuss fresh ideas for using space well, ways to turn boring corridors into inspirational areas and much, much more. Our Innovation Spotlight focuses on the recent surge in interest in hydrotherapy pools, and what’s behind it.

Guest: Sue Timney
Sue Timney – Wikipedia
Timney Fowler Fashion Textile Museum
Making Marks, by Sue Timney (Amazon link)
Life Doesn’t Have to Be Boring – Hello Magazine article by Sue Tinney
Wallacea Living
Innovation Spotlight: Hydrotherapy pools (Innova Care Concepts)
What is Aquatic Therapy – Versus Arthritis
Impact of hydrotherapy on skin blood flow: How much is due to moisture and how much is due to heat? – Taylor & Francis Research Report
Scientific Evidence-Based Effects of Hydrotherapy on Various Systems of the Body – National Library of Medicine
Hydrotherapy Pools: New Guidance and The Impact on the Aquatic Physiotherapist – link to pdf

About Sue Timney

Designer Sue Timney describes her interior style as ‘exotic classicism,’ evident in the well-known Timney-Fowler brand and in the aesthetics of much of her other work. She’s worked in Britian, Europe, the US, and Japan for over 30 years in commercial and residential interiors, and in product design.

Sue is a visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and holds the Textile Institute’s Design Medal. She is a Past President of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID), and in 2021 was elected Chair of the Chelsea Arts Club.

Sue’s designs were exhibited in 2012 at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s ‘British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age’ show, and again at the V & A’s ‘Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the Eighties’ show the following year. She’s developed house and giftware for the World Wildlife Fund, and has her own brand licenced by Marks and Spencer in the UK: the ‘Sue Timney for M & S Collection’ of table and kitchenware.

Her interior projects span diverse commissions from boutique hotels, residential projects in New York, to the Grand Designs BAFTA nominated Water Tower programme. She was recently appointed to for work within the senior living sector in the United Kingdom by Wallacea Living.