Growing up in a small but old town, Metuchen, New Jersey, I spent my childhood playing in gardens and woodlands in a neighborhood that had no shortage of eccentric, historical interiors. We moved fluidly between inside and out and reinvented the rooms to suit our purposes — be a mock funeral, model railway, theatrical production of haunted house. I was always interested in architecture and the decorative arts, and their inter-dependence. My studies of urban planning and architecture at Princeton depended this, where I was inspired by discovering the humble yet integrated works of Greene and Greene and Eileen Gray, for example.