Kayla
Benning
Design has always come naturally to Kayla. She is both creative and analytical, right and left brained; a pairing that creates the perfect balance of form and function in all she visualizes and transforms into reality. Kayla has an innate ability to connect with her clients instantly; knowing their desires and visions often before they do and ultimately creating a space that is enjoyed by all who enter it.
Design to Kayla is pure bliss; from creating to observing, she constantly sees beauty and creativity surrounding her. She gets her inspiration daily from travel, nature, textures, culture, photography, as well as other works of art and architecture. These inspirations coupled with Kayla’s design education and experience, natural artistic instincts, and her clients’ visions keep her designs current yet timeless.
She fully embraces the fact that design is all-encompassing; psychological, emotional, functional, creative, and analytical to name a few. There is a fine art to combining all of those aspects; an art that Kayla was innately born with and blissfully shares and collaborates with her clients on every project she encounters.
Kayla grew up on a farm in rural North Dakota, graduated from NDSU in 2005 with Interior Design and Business Degrees and has since placed herself appropriately in a major design mecca; Palm Springs, California. Spending time between the two places she calls home as well as countless national and international travels have diversified and inspired her design capabilities immensely. Societal, cultural, climatic and current trend knowledge is pertinent in design and is very diverse from different regions of the country and world. Kayla will often “cross-pollinate” her design, for example, incorporating repurposed materials that one would find on a farm in North Dakota mixed with ultra modern materials more commonly used in California. These combinations create a nice mixture of texture and balance; the best of both worlds if you will.
Kayla has no lack of wanderlust, her travels have taken her to the far reaches of the most ancient structures in the world; such as the pyramids of Tikal, to some of the most futuristic and modern buildings ever designed in Asia and Europe. Kayla's designs infuse unique materials found amidst her travels as well as subtle organic designs, shapes, and textures found in nature.
Press of pass projects Kayla has been involved in include but are not limited too:
Architectural Digest, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Travel Channel, New York Post, CA Home + Design, Sunset Magazine, Vogue Living AU, Elle UK, Popular TV, Palm Springs Style, and Palm Springs Life.