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EP 022830 December 2024 · 33 min
Designing Without Limits: Lessons from the Ultra-Luxury World, ft Victor LG at HBA
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Designing Without Limits: Lessons from the Ultra-Luxury World, ft Victor LG at HBA
Ultra-luxury design can look glamorous from the outside, but it demands precision, client understanding, taste, resilience and the ability to work with expectations most projects never face.
Stephen Drew speaks with Victor LG of HBA Residential in Singapore about high-end residential design, moving internationally, building a personal brand and navigating a career in luxury architecture and interiors.
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What changes when budgets and client expectations move into ultra-luxury territory
How Victor moved from studying architecture in Madrid to design leadership in Singapore
Why personal branding and communication matter in design careers
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Hello everyone! Strap on in because today we're going hyperspeed. We're gonna be talking about the other life. That's right, imagine if you had a few hundred thousand dollars. BPP, you could be our client. 20 seconds. Hello everyone and welcome to this non livestream live stream special. That's right, I
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might be or might not be pre recorded. But it doesn't matter because we're here in spirits. And today we're going to talk about a very interesting topic. Imagine Maybe where you are in your career, you're an architect, you're well on their way, and you thought about, I would like to work for the hyper luxury, for the elites.
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