Ana Volante is a Venezuelan interior designer with a multidisciplinary approach. She showcases her talent in crafting commercial and residential spaces, designing furniture, and curating objects and accessories for the studio. Additionally, she supports and exhibits contemporary artists from Venezuela and around the world.
Her interior design philosophy revolves around striking the perfect balance between functionality and aesthetics. By carefully adapting textures, finishes, colors, and details to each area. She creates unique spaces that embody the desired personality envisioned by the client. Art plays a fundamental role in all her designs, with a focus on establishing a deep connection or sensitivity between the artwork and the client. Every interior design proposal features a curated selection of accessories and decorative pieces, harmoniously coexisting with the overall creative expression, elevating the space to the highest level of detail.

1. Where were you born and where are you from ?

Born in Caracas, Venezuela.

2. What is your first memory connected to the art world ?

My grandfather. He was an architect and a painter.

3. Have you always worked in the art/design field ?

Yes !

4. What led you to the design creation ?

The necessity to explore new shapes, textures and create what I imagine.

5. How would you describe your creative process and it influences ?

Intense. I get 100% involved in the creative concept of all my designs. It’s a passion for creation.

6. Could you describe a typical day of your work ?

Office work, site visits to sense all the process, meetings with clients.

7. Why did you choose the specific materials you work with ?

Wood is the most versatile material/texture that I know. I love how it works in every design I make. It adapts to any concept.

8. What are the technical particularities of your creations ?

Balance. I like to defy balance by designing unique shapes.

9. What advices could you give to beginning artists who would like to create sculptural design works ?

Be passionate about your creations. Believe in them, explore many materials. Defy your own creations.

10. If your works had to belong to a design movement, in which one would you define it ?

Art Deco.

11. What designers and artists have influenced you ?

Milo Baughman.

12. What contemporary designers do you appreciate ?

Kelly Wearstler, Harry Nuriev, Bureau Betak

13. What contemporary artists (in any kind of art) have you been inspired by ?

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14. If you had to summarize your creations in one word or sentence, what would it be ?

I like to design sculptural pieces that are filled with a strong personality.

Proust Questionnaire with very short answers (one or a few words) :
(The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust. Other historical figures who have answered confession albums are Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Cézanne…)