Essays and observations rooted in womanhood, selfhood, and the pursuit of intentional living. Each piece offers a quiet exploration — of home, identity, work, and emotion — shaped by questions still unfolding. These are reflections in progress: honest, layered, and written to make sense of the world one thought at a time.
The Woman in the Chair: Susan Ferrier’s Elemental Voice
Susan Ferrier doesn’t design for spectacle — she designs for stillness. In her debut collection for Baker | McGuire, she invites us into a world where furniture is personal, scale is emotional, and silence is a form of sensuality. With volcanic forms and ancestral echoes, this 72-piece collection doesn’t just fill rooms — it centres them.
Where Beauty Whispers
In a world of visual noise, neutral design is a quiet rebellion. Where Beauty Whispers explores how texture, tone, and natural materials create rooms that don’t perform — they hold. This is not minimalism; it’s emotional architecture. A celebration of depth, stillness, and the radical beauty of less.
Who Are We Designing For, Really?
When we design with legacy in mind, we move past trend and into something lasting. Who Are We Designing For, Really? explores the emotional architecture behind multigenerational homes — where each piece holds memory, every space flexes for life in motion, and good design becomes a quiet witness across time.
Where Does the Outside End?
What if your home didn’t separate you from the world, but brought you closer to it? Where Does the Outside End? explores the deeper purpose of indoor-outdoor design—not as aesthetics, but as emotional coherence. Because when light moves through a room, and texture bridges indoors and out, we remember what it feels like to live connected.
On Sconces, Shadows, and the Stories We Tell Through Light
A sconce doesn’t just illuminate — it whispers. It shapes the mood, the memory, the moment. On Sconces, Shadows, and the Stories We Tell Through Light is an ode to the power of lighting to soften, reveal, and emotionally anchor a space. Because in a world of brightness, the glow that unfolds slowly speaks loudest.
Edges I recognise
In this personal reflection, Daphne explores how one raw-edged console table — sculpted from fossilised clam — unexpectedly mirrored her inner world. A piece on beauty, honesty, and what design can awaken in us.