As we begin a new year, what bubbles up for me is a question – How do we lean into the best of our intentions, prioritizing what matters most, and create beauty along the way?"
Throughout 2024 we continued our Haven journey, forging relationships, building and strengthening community, celebrating and honoring our collaborators, and learning from those we admire. Our throughline has been highlighting the correlation between human connection, the natural world, and ingenious design. As we look forward, I hope to take the conversation deeper, exploring how we, through our craft, take care of our shared home and therefore, each other.
Nothing exists in isolation. What we create on the interiors touches the architecture as well as the landscape and vice versa. One without the other can be independently beautiful, but not liveable. As we focus on our specialty, the most meaningful and beautiful projects are born from communion between disciplines and shared reverence for the land we work on.
Big Sur by Field Architecture. Photography by Joe Fletcher.
One of my favorite conversations from 2024 highlighted this sentiment more than any other. Jess Field, architect, talked with me about taking time to tune in, to read the land, to gain insight and respond to what nature has already made… to what is already beautiful. His reverence for place is something I reflect on frequently. I share his passion, and believe that we have to take the time to get it right. That we have to keep our impulse for bigger, better, faster in check as we add our footprint to natural landscapes.
We are inextricably bound to one another as we work on turning plots of land into sacred dwelling places. Exploring this with our beloved, extraordinarily talented, community in order to continue building beauty is my goal for 2025.
Happiest New Year!
XO – Mead