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BIZ GUEST

% Covid-19 has affected all industries
INNOVATING and businesses over the past two years,
and architecture and interior design
have been no exception. What has the
impact been from your perspective?
SPACES throughout history prior to Covid-19. Crises
There have been large and small crises
always make an impression on norms
within society. In the past two years, the
world has faced its latest crisis - Covid-19
Ms. Huong Dao, Founder and Art Director of KGM ASIA, tells VET - which has hit nearly all aspects of society
about the new architectural and interior design trends emerging and upset the lives of the planet’s nearly 8
to meet needs during Covid-19. billion people, and obviously architecture
and interior design have not escaped
unscathed.
Amid social distancing, many people
were forced to self-quarantine, with activ-
ities that mainly take place in residential
spaces or service spaces having to close or
be limited. This resulted in the way people
interact with space being completely turned
upside down. Architecture and interior
design always play an important role in

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