Designer Willo Perron is in hot demand now: What makes his taste so good?

Perron at his office on the Pillo Sofa, his first piece for Knoll, in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles. — BRIAN GUIDO/The New York Times

Perhaps you’ve seen Beyonce soaring over crowds in a floating horseshoe at her Cowboy Carter tour performances, or riding a metallic mechanical bull. If you’ve wondered who came up with those stunts, the answer involves Willo Perron.

“She really is, in my eyes, the last of a type of an entertainer-performer,” Perron, the tour’s stage designer, said over tea at Corner Bar, a restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York, the United States, in April.