Sense and Sensibility

Not content to rest on her laurels, award-winning interior designer Nikki Hunt personifies the lifelong learning maxim espoused by her newly adopted home country with her latest passion

- Ryan Reuben

“I became Singaporean last year,” proclaims a beaming Nikki Hunt at one point during her meeting with the Tatler Homes Singapore team. “I’m very proud to be Singaporean.”

Having created award-winning interiors for clients here for 20 years, and establishing herself as a mainstay of Singapore’s interior design scene in the process, the UK native’s revelation of her new citizenship seems almost like a tangible affirmation of her work in the sector. Her interior design and architectural consultancy, Nikki Hunt’s Design Intervention, was established in 2004, and soon carved a niche for itself with stunning, personalised spaces that boost their users’ well-being, underpinned by Hunt’s signature use of pattern and colour.

As with Singapore’s lifelong learning policy, which promotes continuous learning and upskilling, Hunt herself is on a constant drive towards self-improvement. Most notably, the past few years have proved something of a watershed, setting her on a path of discovery.

It all started when Hunt came across