For Anne's birthday last year, we went to a fabulous San Francisco nursery where she was to pick out her own present - something that made her heart sing, but that she would never buy for herself. What she picked wasn't a plant at all, but a stone dish shaped like a flower. We both fell in love with it, for reasons we weren't quite sure of at the time. What to do with this astonishingly heavy, lovely little luxury? Once we realized that the answer was paperclips (of course), we then knew why this dish held so much value. To have something so precious and beautifully crafted, offset something so functional, simple and thoughtfully designed was instantly aligned with our own sensibilities.
As Anne now sets off for a two-year stint in Shanghai, she leaves the bowl with me. It sits here upon my desk, reminding me of simple ideas seen in inspiring ways. So now we write, to keep up the daily conversations that have been the sustenance of our little design firm over the past four years. We write to share our discoveries, in love, life, work and play, over the coming seasons.
