Eliza Wattiez - Maintaining Strong Client Relationships

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As part of her work as an interior designer in South Florida, Eliza Wattiez is often tasked with interacting with clients and maintaining strong relationships with them in order to deliver the outcome that they are looking for. This is a difficult task, even in the best of times. “It requires a lot of time and dedication,” she says.

 The following tips can help the client relationship to remain strong.

Always Deliver
Never make a promise to a client that you are not confident about delivering on. Repeated failure to provide what you have said you are going to provide will lead to the relationship breaking down thanks to the trust being ruined. If you can’t do what the client asks for right away, be honest about it and then work together to find a solution.
Maintain Communication
When working with a commercial client, you may find that your opportunities to meet face-to-face during the course of a project are few and far between. This does not mean that you should disregard the importance of regular communication as it relates to maintaining the relationship. If you can’t speak on the phone or in person, send an email. The key is communicating regularly, especially when an important development has occurred.
Be Patient
Eliza Wattiez works with a number of clients, each of whom has a unique way of doing things. Understand that every client relationship you form is going to be a little different and you may need to exercise patience before the relationship is able to grow.

Eliza Wattiez - Every Situation is Different

Eliza Wattiez is a highly trained interior designer who currently works at De’ Marti Designs in South Florida, where she is a Principal Design Associate. She has been with the firm since 2014.

Interior design is system of shaping interior space, drawing on aspects of environmental psychology, architecture, and product design along with traditional decoration. “I create the whole concept and sell it to the client,” Eliza Wattiez says. When the concept gets the green light, she begins its realization by creating a floor plan and filling the space with furniture, fixtures, equipment, and other features. “I may also define the businesses target market, location, logo, branding, branding colors,” and so on.

Every situation, she says, is different, and adapted to the clients’ needs. Interior designers are often involved in building projects from the very beginning; in some cases even working with the architect. Her job is to create an interior space that is both practical and functional, as well as aesthetically pleasing. It must also be in accord with building codes. Because of that and similar considerations, interior designers in most states need formal training and are required to have a license or similar certification.

Eliza Wattiez attended school in the United States and in Europe. She graduated with honors with a Bachelors in Fine Arts-Interior Design from Miami International University of Art & Design, and is also an honors graduate in Interior Decoration and Architecture from L’Ecole des Buttes De Chaumont in Paris. She was a Literary Baccalaureate with an Art option at La Bruyere in Versailles.

Sources: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/whats-the-difference-interior-designer-vs-interior-decorator-199045
http://workdesign.com/2013/04/7-design-trends-for-commercial-interiors/
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Eliza Wattiez - Canadian Show Jumping Team

Eliza Wattiez is the Principal Interior Design Associate at De’ Marti Design, a leading South Florida interior design firm. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy from La Bruyere in Versailles, France, as well as studied on scholarship in Interior Decoration and Architecture from L’Ecole des Buttes De Chaumont in Paris graduating with honors. Furthermore, she graduated in Interior Design from Miami International University of Art and Design with honors.
                                         

She has lived throughout North America and Europe. She is a former member of the Canadian National Equestrian Show Jumping Team and competed in the World Cup in 2001. Show jumping is an exciting equestrian sports that is designed to test both the horse and rider, who work as one to complete a course with as few mistakes as possible, and in the best possible time. It sounds fairly uncomplicated, but the sport requires a great deal of athleticism and precision. At the peak of her show jumping career, Eliza Wattiez trained up to five hours a day, usually after completing a full day of school work.

In professional show jumping, horse and rider are challenged by fences that begin at about 4 feet. A typical show jumping course averages ten to fifteen fences, plus combinations. The ultimate show jumping challenge is called Puissance, where the horse and rider jump a height that is repeatedly raised until they finally hit it. Puissance heights have been known to be up to eight feet.
Eliza Wattiez is also a recognized fine artist and decorative painter.

Sources:
http://thehorseridingsite.com/show-jumping
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Eliza Wattiez - Artistic Family

Eliza Wattiez is an interior designer who makes South Florida her home. She works for De’ Marti Design, where she is additionally a project manager, responsible for commercial and residential projects.

She was born into an artistic family and has lived in many different places during her life. “Basically I do not have a particular place where I grew up,” she says. “I was born in Paget, Bermuda, where my parents were living at the time.” She has lived in New Canaan, Connecticut and Montreal, Canada, and has also lived in France, Spain, and Italy. “Now I am permanently in the U.S.”

She was strongly influenced by her family and their accomplishments. Her mother, Lisa Staniforth Gourdon, is the creator and director of L’Ecole D’art Mural in Versailles. “This school is one of the first to certify decorative faux finish painters, enabling graduates to restore historical monuments such as the Chateaux de Versailles or the Louvre,” she says. Her mother recently finished restoring the Musee Des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. One of her uncles is in the hall of fame for Yacht Design, and another is the Supervisor in Advanced Visualization at Bombardier Aerospace. Her two aunts are both high-end residential designers, and have also designed private jets.

Eliza Wattiez Grandmother, Joanne Hewson Rees, won recognition as a fine artist, and also competed in the 1952 Olympic Games in Oslo, Norway. This in turn inspired Eliza to train as an equestrian showjumper; Thus she competed for Canada’s National Equestrian Show Jumping Team.