Thursday, April 30, 2009

Mother's Day


Both Shannon and I grew up with designing moms, who were always arranging and rearranging our homes. When I was young, I often wondered why my mom would work for hours on the smallest of tasks. But it always seemed like those extra details made the room special.

Sometimes she would come across something she loved in an antique store. I had no idea where she would place that item in our house. But she always seem to make it work, sometimes rearranging the entire room around it. Part of the reason Shannon and I started Wisteria was because of those moments spent admiring our mothers. We're so thankful for their influence in our lives.

Mother's Day is just around the corner. The pictures you see above celebrate some of Wisteria's mothers. Masami, our Vice President of Production, is pregnant with her second child. She leads the team of people who put together our catalog. Mary Jane, our Senior Creative Director, is a brand new grandmother (pictured with her new grandson Moss). And the last picture is my mom, Cooper and Susanna, their cousins, and Shannon's mom.


The top two photos were taken by Dylan Hollingsworth.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

From the Eiffel tower...

This shot was taken from the very top of the Eiffel Tower looking at the grassy promenade below us. It was a huge heart that had been trampled in the grass. From the ground it was impossible to see, but at a thousand feet up, we could only marvel at this wondrous heart several hundred feet wide. Perhaps it was someone's declaration of love or a reminder of what's really important in this life. Whatever the artist's intent, it proves that no matter the setting, even in a city full of wonders, beauty can come from our everyday surroundings, if only we have the eyes to see it.

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