Our Core Values: Collaboration
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Last year, at our yearly owners’ retreat, Garrett and I undertook the overdue task of reenvisioning and crafting Henson-Hinck Designs’ Purpose Statement & Values. As any business owner will tell you, this is an arduous and somewhat painful process, as selecting just a few guiding values to shape the future of your company seems like an impossible task.
Our five company values are incredibly important to us, and over the course of the coming year we are excited to highlight each of them on our social media and in this little blog post series. Henson-Hinck Designs’ core values are as follows:
Collaboration
Craftsmanship
Intentionality
Enjoyment & Well-being
Kindness
We love collaboration. One of the joys of a growing team at Henson-Hinck Designs has been expanding our network of collaborators. Our projects move forward with the help of hundreds of individuals working in workrooms, other studios, retail shops, factories, and office cubicles around the world. This is the unseen workforce that rallies behind each one of our clients, and interacting with them on a daily basis is one of the most exciting parts of working in interior design in Chattanooga. But while we couldn’t function without our colleagues, there is another kind of collaboration that is just as important in our studio.
At any age, in all walks of life, people’s tastes and interests are influenced by those around them. This is the foundation of style: we are influenced in our tastes by those we admire. Whether or not they realize it, each of our clients has developed little bits of their own design style. Collaborating with our clients by truly listening and identifying these aesthetic details is our strategy for achieving a design that is technically sound but also “feels like home” for each client. One of the challenges of thoughtful interior design is balancing one’s own design philosophies with the nuances of subtle trends and aesthetic interests that spring up naturally in specific communities and friend groups. Isolating oneself as a designer only means being oblivious to the style conversations happening in the community.
For us, collaboration means listening and being in conversation with as many people in our community as possible. It means keeping our eyes and ears open to the things that are unique and quirky, to the problems that need solving, and to what is being celebrated. Elevating design principles in our community works better when you keep one ear to the ground.
Tim Henson-Hinck
