The Journal
On design, materials, place, and the particular way homes shape the people who live in them.
May 13, 2026
As I write this, I'm sitting in the indoor/outdoor mezzanine of a resort in the Dominican Republic. It's that slim window between the madness of check-in and the first wave of dinner cocktail hour -- the hour where the staff quietly shuttle…
April 29, 2026
There's a particular kind of paralysis that comes with owning a home you love but can't quite figure out. You've lived i…
April 22, 2026
Most conversations about interior design start and end at the surface: the finishes, the furniture, the palette. And tho…
April 15, 2026
We spend more time inside our homes than almost anywhere else. We sleep there, eat there, work there, recover there. And…
April 8, 2026
Growing up, I often felt more connected to the animals in my life than to many of the people I met. I spent my childhood…
March 25, 2026
It can sometimes feel as though the world is caught in an endless cycle of destruction. War. Division. Environmental deg…
March 18, 2026
In the Hudson Valley and throughout New York City, spring does not arrive quietly. It pushes. Snow melts into heavy eart…
March 11, 2026
We tend to obsess over floor plans. Open concept or traditional. Kitchen island size. Where the sofa goes. But once the…
March 3, 2026
On Curiosity, Voice, and the Architecture of Becoming Women’s History Month invites reflection. Not only on progress. N…
February 25, 2026
Before there were buildings, there was light. Our biology was shaped under open skies. Long before architecture, before…
February 19, 2026
The Philosophy Behind Curio Studio Curio. A noun defined by Merriam-Webster as “something considered novel, rare, or biz…
February 11, 2026
A Home Is an Entanglement of Living Beings A home is not a container. It is an entanglement. An ecosystem of living bei…
February 4, 2026
Renovations are a beast. Interior design is not for the faint of heart. There are thousands of decisions layered into a…
January 28, 2026
The materials we welcome into our homes matter far more than we’ve been taught to believe. They shape how a space feels,…
January 16, 2026
Over the last ten to twenty years, our visual world has been quietly whitewashed. We moved from grey boxes to white boxe…
January 11, 2026
What is it that makes us desire certain aesthetics? Our aesthetic preferences are not random. They mirror how we choose…
January 5, 2026
2026 is the Year of the Horse and as a bona fide, forever horse girl, there was no chance we were letting this moment pa…
December 28, 2025
I grew up alongside the birth of social media. Sharing our lives online felt normal to us, far more natural than going t…
December 21, 2025
So, What Exactly Is Curio Studio? And What Do Interior Designers Actually Do? Let me explain. In short, Curio Studio is…
December 13, 2025
Fashion “I like my clothes to be modern and make statements, but I like them to have roots.” — Alexander McQueen Fashio…
