The modern British office is about as calm as a tent in a thunderstorm. The fast-paced winds of corporate life whip everything into an all-consuming froth of clutter through which we try to conduct our working lives. Feng Shui, the ancient Chinese art of placement, is now being employed to counter the endemic culture of corporate disorder with supporters including Richard Branson and Donald Trump. Liza Evans, the in-house Interior Designer and Feng Shui consultant for Executive Offices Group, creates harmonious working spaces by translating the discipline into an effective corporate instrument that helps businesses succeed in their market place.

Feng Shui is a discipline that explores the relationship between the natural and built environment. When Liza designs an office every detail of a building is taken into consideration including its location, direction and surroundings, as well as the positioning of its entrances, public spaces, and the office layout itself. In practical terms the main changes she effects involve a wholesale removal of clutter and the careful and subtle placement of objects in conjunction with complementary colour and texture combinations. The offices she creates have a sleek and contemporary interior design quality but are born of an art that has been honed by its practitioners over thousands of years.

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Alright, so you woke up one day, checked your Swiss Bank Account
, called your family office planner, had breakfast with your private client service wealth manager, got your tax accountant on the phone, and between three of you, you decided to invest your proceeds from your latest company’s Merger or Acquisition not into some dubious hedge fund or start-up biotech venture, but into financing Hollywood films because you figure you need the State tax Credits, the Federal tax write-offs, as well as a nice hedge of revenues from a few movies.

Now, this may not ring too well initially with your hedge fund manager neighbors in Connecticut or your oil and gas investor friends in Bahrain or Dubai, but aren’t these the same guys who are financing Hollywood blockbusters? And the only question for you, how do you get in the game without feeling like the Uncle of the film school student who wrote his nephew a $1,000,000 check for a film that starred his theater department classmates and ended up as a free download on youtube.com?

So after doing your share of homework, here’s what you discover may be the opportunity to spice up your wealthy but boring life:

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