Even today, I remember buying the catalogue raisonné of Fernand Khnopff, a Belgian painter and symbolist, more than 20 years ago in Munich. The book cost me a fortune compared with what I was earning – but if you’re inspired by a thing …

Interestingly enough, the way I see things and the experience of life that I have today also correspond with the predictions of Li Edelkoort, who is known to everyone in the world of design as a trend guru. Her credo for what lies ahead is this: “All we will have left in the future to differentiate ourselves from one another are our hands and our creativity, with the aid of which we’ll be able to make things and reinvent ourselves”. And she goes on to say: “The age of the amateurs is dawning – passion instead of professional perfection

I have nothing to add to that.