PIECE OF MIND is a survey of the sensorial details and qualities that are front-of-mind for the women who inspire us. A PLACE: Panarea & Buenos Aires    AN IDEA: Womanhood, solidarity, and independence   A PALETTE: Lapis blue, loquat pale yellow, pistachio, colors of the Mediterranean   A SOUND: Binaural beats music and sounds for consciousness, healing, and concentration   …

Pamela Shamshiri isn't a "designer," she's a storyteller. As the co-founder of Los Angeles-based Studio Shamshiri (and previous co-founder in the design firm Commune), her vision and concepts are rooted in engaging all the senses, embracing "complexity and layers," and considering the inherit emotion and life within a space. We first featured Pamela in this series in 2016, when she had newly…

We're always drawn toward and inspired by women who embody at once grace and empowered strength — who remind us that delicacy and boldness can beautifully, seamlessly coexist. Based in London, artist Johanna Tagada's work is a glimpse both into an aesthetic and a conceptual world that wholly stands for that duality. Born in the French countryside of Alsace, Johanna is an interdisciplinary artist…

    Mary Oliver, “Hurricane”: “It didn’t behave like anything you had ever imagined. The wind tore at the trees, the rain fell for days slant and hard. The back of the hand to everything. I watched the trees bow and their leaves fall and crawl back into the earth. As though, that was that. This was one hurricane I lived through, the other one was of a different sort, and lasted longer. Then I…

“For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here..” — Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost Yogi, traveler, and teacher Grace Dubery is a woman we've known…