On local color: “If you would take a really full, vivid color from close to the equator, like a Moroccan or Indian color scheme, these vivid colors, and you try to recreate it in the Scandinavian light, it falls flat because we don’t have that warm light. It’s much colder. So even though my apartment’s really colorful, it’s not done with these colors that need really warm light because that would never work here.”