We’re so excited to be chatting with you once more! What’s new?! Might you share a short look into your life and profession because the final time that we spoke in 2019?
A lot life has occurred since we final spoke in 2019. It’s been a very full chapter.
In 2020, we stepped away from Los Angeles and moved again to Sewickley, Pennsylvania, a small city simply outdoors my hometown of Pittsburgh. On the time I assumed it could be a little bit of a sabbatical through the first few years of my daughter’s life. I used to be craving slower mornings and extra presence, and that shift ended up altering me creatively in one of the simplest ways. Now I’m within the technique of bringing Los Angeles again into our lives, which seems like a very cool full-circle second.
Whereas I used to be dwelling, I poured into the area people. I took on just a few pro-bono tasks for small Sewickley companies and renovated a few homes, together with our Church Lane and Brookside tasks. I additionally took on my greatest undertaking to this point: renovating our family dwelling there.
In that dwelling I additionally had my first-ever devoted artwork studio, which is the place I fell in love with ceramics. Working with my fingers, making imperfect issues, and creating only for the enjoyment of it actually expanded how I take into consideration artwork and design residing collectively. That point within the studio led to some new collaborations I’m actually enthusiastic about, together with a dinnerware assortment with Il Buco Vita and my very own line of ceramics designed instantly with factories of ceramicists in Portugal.
Round that very same time, I even acquired again to my songwriting days and began writing a musical with mates. It has been such a creatively liberating and surprising outlet.
Professionally, we completed filming the ultimate season of House Once more with the Fords for HGTV. I launched FEEL FREE Journal, an art-forward publication, wrote my first e-book The Sluggish Down, and now my second e-book, FEEL FREE House, comes out Could twelfth. It actually seems like the last word expression of my design philosophy.
I’ve additionally continued designing product collections with fantastic companions like Crate & Barrel, Crate & Children, and Loloi Rugs. I opened my first two retail retailers in collaboration with Buck Mason, one in Sewickley and one in Los Angeles. Over time I went from designing all of their retail environments to handing off my “recipe” of inventive substances to their extremely succesful in-house group. Now I get to take a seat shotgun for a lot of of their build-outs and watch them execute the blueprint we’ve constructed collectively over the past 20 years, whereas staying intently concerned with the 2 places that additionally carry my homewares.
And perhaps most significantly, I’ve discovered a lot pleasure in inventive collaboration with mates. I’ve had the prospect to work alongside Amy Neunsinger and Christina Simon on totally different tasks through the years, which has been such a present creatively. I’ve additionally been partnering extra repeatedly with Grace Mitchell in Spherical Prime, Texas as The Tough Housers, restoring and reimagining properties collectively — properties that you would be able to truly come keep in whenever you go to (verify them out right here: Spherical One and Spherical Two).
It’s been a season of slowing down, creating freely, and following no matter feels inspiring within the second.
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