I’ve loved interior design since I was a little girl, when I would rearrange the furniture to surprise my mother. I still feel the same thrill when I create a new pattern for a table, or find an unexpected way to use color on a mirror or wallpiece. I want to create an inlaid quality like Byzantine mosaics or the fantastic woodwork of the Arts and Crafts movement, flawlessly precise, with crisp, clean edges. I like the mystery and surprise of simple paper in this context. I want the viewer to wonder: Is it stone, metal, glass? I prefer design that is lush, not busy, and never sentimental. Bella Bella patterns are about vines, stones, and stylized foliage; about iron trelliswork, mosaics, and Italian ceramics; about French fabrics, crazy Celtic spirals, and Matisse-like fronds.

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