Growing up on the Connecticut shore, among early American architecture, formal gardens, and conservatories shipped from England. That world set the standard before I had language for it.

I'm based in New York with my partner. We eat well, travel often, and spend more time in Italy than is probably reasonable. The Mediterranean speaks to me. It has a way of clarifying what actually matters, the quality of what's on the table, how a space feels at seven in the evening, how much beauty daily life holds.

The best spaces I've encountered were never explained. They didn't need to be.

That sensibility carries into everything I design. The approach changes with each project, but the intention behind it never does.