Design Secrets: Furniture

Dreaming, stargazing, and contemplating the results of another

project were the genesis of her Crescent Sofa. “I did a very big

round rug,” she explains. “The colors were, I think, at least five or

six different dark blues. There was a lot of joy and happiness for

all these blues to be mixed, because you hardly saw where they

changed, but they had influence on each other, and I loved that.

In these blues, I designed little stars of beige and gold and they

were very small. In the end, this piece was called Milky Way.” She

continues, “This sky made me think of the Moon, and I wanted to

do something with the Moon. I thought it would be incredibly

nice to ...