A quick reminder today as my team and I are working on a multi-generational project. The Next Gen needs real, not perfect.
Share who you are in your space, let it morph and flex under the beauty of books read and friends reclining en suite.
Have a blessed day.
– A
There is something to be said for not shouting the price. Legacy Philanthropic Lifestyle Design understands why.
the price high of course, the value is honor paid to craftsmen and women who steward their best gift for beauty
There is also something to be said for understanding the cost. Legacy Philanthropic Lifestyle Design understand how.
we bring water to a camp out of the country so volunteers can serve others
There is a difference. Wisdom contains it.
I am from the Bay Area these days, less travel, more home. More virtual, less hustle. As a Decorator by trade, Designer by heart, I watch and long to pour into my clients and friends the lessons learned at discretion’s feet. The blessings that discrete curated processes of design provide to life and limb, mind, body and soul.
Curated discreet spaces. The kind that hold and nurture not the kind that scream and shout. The kind that build legacy and curate hope, not the kind that scream “look at me, I’m designed!”, the kind that breed safety and acceptance not the kind that shout judgment and condemnation.
custom crafted from antique historic columns it brings discreet soul to new construction
Space changes us. Designed space really changes us. Cathedrals and prisons are designed spaces. Ponder that for a minute. At the core, someone somewhere understood that space designed changes people.
Discretion.
If I could give my next gen Designers one thing: Discretion. If I could give my “why isn’t my design business working” friends Read More
Decorating a home is complicated enough. Add some storied family history, a new family member, a new board appointed trustee by way of Grandfather and the next generation with ideas of green vegan living in a changing environment and the mix can become toxic. What was once a lovely destination cabin on the remote plains of the middle west used for hunting and fishing is now the epicenter of Family Battle Chapter #13, all over a set of Quilts and the next phase of use: green living.
Capable of destroying legacy and leaving shrapnel for generations, this simple plot is enacted hundreds of times over in varying degrees in board rooms and over skype calls in Small Family Foundations world wide every month. Does not matter if it’s the America’s version of the middle west or a Yurt in the middle of Turkey. Seriously. The issues are the same. Legacy intersects children with trustee and/or wife and/or over authority and stuff. The story is as old as Abraham. Older actually… Read More
2014 has been a year of edits. As my team and I looked over the past to note what we did best at Couture Chateau, it came clearly into focus.
We design rooms to entire estates that are under the ownership of private trusts or families and owners who handle and manage multiple properties as part of their portfolio.
We do so entirely online.
From idea to implementation, from management of installation, coordination of staff, storage, delivery to training of household staff on execution and maintenance of a finished look within a room or entire estate, my fabulous team at Couture Chateau and I had developed a system that worked.
Our guests (old school clients) love the flexibility, the 24/7 access, the follow up and the understanding of how life is really lived in 2014. Read More