'Accidental interior designer' Joe Chan on his style and how he started out

IDr Joe Chan, founder and principal of the award-winning firm DesignTone Interior Practice, got into interior design by chance. — Photos: Pixelaw Photography

As a child, Joe Chan – interior designer, founder and principal of the award-winning firm DesignTone Interior Practice – was handy with carpentry tools, spending hours helping his father make simple homemade furniture.

This hobby would become the foundation on which he built his interest in architecture, giving him the skills to be able to visualise how things come together.