Sharon Mrozinski has spent her life seeking, discovering, and sharing beauty. With her husband Paul, she’s spent over 35 years hunting for antique and vintage homewares, fabric, and objects from all over the world, bringing them back to sell at the Marston House, the creative umbrella under which Sharon and Paul live and work. Since the late 90s, the couple has split their time between coastal…

We first met Sherri McMullen through her namesake shop McMullen, a small womenswear boutique in Piedmont, CA, just west of Oakland. Sherri is a true cultivator of community; walking into her store is to immediately understand that she curates an environment for the women around her, guided by empowering others through what they wear and how they feel. We visited Sherri at her home to touch on…

Design is often associated with just form. A vehicle for something functional or aesthetically pleasing. The interaction with the human aspect is considered the final step. In her award-winning studio, British designer Ilse Crawford proves this idea wrong: Before design, there is empathy. Without it, there is no good design. With her Studioilse team, the former founding editor of Elle UK has (…

Michaela Lee has a journey that has led her from Southern California to New York City to now Paris, where she has lived for the last 13 years. With a background in fashion — experiencing everything from a career in corporate fashion, to consulting, to operating her own vintage store — Lee left New York for Paris in 2004 seeking change and a new perspective. It turned out to be, in her words, the…

  “My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.” — Agnes Martin Artist Rosemarie Auberson creates entire worlds with simple shapes, nuanced color, and pared back abstraction. Based in Paris, we’ve long been drawn to her work, which manifests in an interdisciplinary mix of painting, collage, drawing, and art direction, each orchestrated with a…