Contributors
Dana Covit
Dana Covit is a Los Angeles-based writer, researcher, and brand storyteller. Her editorial work has appeared in Broccoli Magazine — where she’s explored topics like seashells and butterflies — Romance Journal, and Refinery29. She also writes and sends a newsletter called THESE FAVORITE THINGS, and is usually dreaming of road trips, day trips, and fruit-bearing trees.
Alix-Rose Cowie
Alix-Rose Cowie is an art and design writer, and a fashion and still life photographer who lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Pippa Drummond
Pippa Drummond is a photographer based in Brooklyn (by way of Auckland, NZ). She shoots still life, interiors, and food.
Brian W. Ferry
Brian Ferry is a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn. He regularly shoots interiors and environments, artists and designers, portraits, and travel and lifestyle stories both for personal work and for clients and collaborators such as Freunde von Freunden, BBDO/Starbucks, Aritzia, Wilder Quarterly, Brooklyn Magazine, Bon Appetit, and Martha Stewart Living. His work has been exhibited in Los Angeles and London, and a limited-edition book of his photographs was published in 2011 by Lawson’s Books. He frequently posts new photographs, thoughts, ideas, and inspirations on his popular blog, the blue hour.
Kate Lawson
Kate Lawson is a UK–based freelance writer and creative content consultant. Her work has appeared online and in print for Architectural Digest, Dazed & Confused, FT Weekend, I-D Magazine, Interview Magazine, Observer Magazine, The Sunday Times Style, Wallpaper and more. When not writing, she can be found in an art gallery or museum, particularly in the gift shop, satisfying her shopping addiction for photography books and art prints. She’s also obsessed with the Art Deco period and 1980s interiors.
Jennifer S. Li
Jennifer S. Li is a writer living in sunny Los Angeles. Her work appears regularly in Art in America, ArtAsiaPacific, ArtReview and more. When not writing or in a museum or art gallery, she hikes with her dog, Theo, plays violin, and eats baked goods.
Sean Santiago
Sean Santiago is a Brooklyn-based writer, photographer and kale apologist who advocates for drinking at lunch. An avid traveler, he is always on the hunt for good coffee and better bread. His work has appeared on Refinery29, Elle Decor, and Freunde Von Freunden.
Charlie Schuck
Charlie Schuck is a photographer and director who grew up on an island in the Pacific Northwest and now resides in New York. His work is greatly guided by the natural world and its various qualities of light. In his formative years, Charlie was influenced by a number of industrial designers which launched a lifelong interest in design, objects, and the people who make them.
Maggie Shannon
Maggie Shannon is a photographer based in Los Angeles by way of Martha’s Vineyard. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Maggie’s portraits, interiors, and documentary work have appeared in The New Yorker, Wallpaper, and W magazine among others. She was named one of PDN’s 30 for 2018.
Deborah Shapiro
Deborah Shapiro is a writer based in Chicago, where she lives with her husband and son. She has worked at ELLE and New York, and written for T Magazine, The Second Pass, and Time Out New York, among other publications. She is the author of The Sun In Your Eyes.
Laura May Todd
Laura May Todd is a Canadian-born, Milan-based journalist, writing about design, architecture, art and travel. She writes for a range of print and digital publications, including Wallpaper, Domus, Architectural Digest, AnOther, Cereal, and Azure. Prior to her work as a journalist, she was assistant editor at the London-based publishing house Phaidon Press.
Shoko Wanger
Shoko Wanger is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Architectural Digest, Freunde von Freunden, Conde Nast Traveler, and more. She also writes a series of personal essays called POV, which can be found on her blog. She currently splits her time between New York City and Los Angeles.