From l’Empordà, a privileged environment in Catalonia, the studio d’Aussy Interiors, created in 2018, cooks projects over a slow fire, led by the interior designer Clara Joly d’Aussy and her collaborators. Its 100% Mediterranean and ecological philosophy focuses on respect for the environment, local materials and local produce.

Clara, born in Barcelona, studied Interior Design at Elisava, successfully obtaining a Higher Degree in Design, specialising in Interiors. With 15 years of experience, she has collaborated with prestigious architecture and interior design studios in Australia, such as Alexander and Co and with the Japanese Koichi Takada, in residential and hospitality projects.

The symbiosis between indoors and outdoors to enjoy the Mediterranean climate, creating houses ‘that you don’t know where they start and where they end, taking advantage of every corner, inside or outside, it doesn’t matter’.

Together with local architects, craftsmen, landscapers and industrialists, Clara shapes homes for her clients, whether it be complete renovations of family heirloom homes, acquisitions in prime locations that need a new lease of life, or interior design and landscaping of new build homes. Each project is a world unto itself.

‘My respect for nature and the environment comes from my apprenticeship in Australia, where nature is a religion of its own, it is not touched, it is admired. I collaborated with several studios that taught me that multiple brains add up and create mastery, and that’s why my format is teamwork…I like to have support and expert opinion.

My love for interior architecture and landscaping, and the relationship of both in symbiosis, comes from my father, who taught me from an early age how objects worked, the why of things, and the love of plants. My mother, on the other hand, taught me the importance of balance in creating an environment. Light, textures and a few well-placed elements. Both have been very influential in my development as an interior designer.

My summer home (my parents‘), an old barn in the Empordà, is the temple where much of my inspiration was born, created by my parents, where I have spent the best moments of my life, and now I look back and recreate many of the details and corners in my projects, almost unconsciously’.