Space is essential to our lives, one that we sometimes take for granted. It’s what we call home, school or the workplace. It is where we eat, sleep, recharge or retreat to from an increasingly intrusive world. No one seems to understand that better than interior designer Marie Eleanor “Malen” Gomez-Garcia, creative director of Idea/Forma Designers Co.

An 11-year-old company, Idea/Forma specializes in the conceptualization and project execution of residential and office spaces.