Symmetry

Cherin wears multiple hats — she runs her own interior design company, LAANK, as well as her own fashion line, Laark, and when she finds some extra time on her hands, she finds joy in cooking up a storm for her friends and family. Busy as she sounds, Cherin loves that her day job is anchored around two simple things: people and emotions. “We aim to redefine the way people live and experience spaces by creating diverse, innovative, and exciting environments that evoke emotions.” She’s found that, like design, life is all about good balance and management. “My personal happiness is tied to the co-existence of work, and family and friends,” she says. “One cannot exist without the other; they’re both as important.” As such, Cherin places immense value on the people around her, as much as she finds strength within herself to carry on. Some things she’s learnt from work: “Give even when you can’t give,” she says. “Be ready to hit rock bottom, and to pick yourself up time after time, and never forget the people that form your support pillars in life.” She counts Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club as one of her favourite books, saying that it tells a sincere story of strength, pain, and lessons in life, and it’s easy to see how the multitude of relationships within the tale has impacted her in real life. On a less serious note, Cherin finds a solitary peace in her out-of-work pursuit of cooking. “It’s a craft that I’m constantly trying to perfect,” she says. “If I wasn’t an interior designer, I’d be a professional grilled cheese sandwich maker.