About Julia...

Julia’s distinctive, non-conformist, international, style, her deep understanding of color, form and pattern, combined with her unique eye for design and craftsmanship are no accident. She was raised in both Tokyo and San Francisco by a Japanese mother and an American father. She has traveled extensively travels across Asia, the Americas, northern Africa and throughout Europe, which now serves as her primary residence. These formative experiences have fostered her immense passion for fine, hand-made artisanry in its countless forms and materials, and which rests at the heart of all of her mesmerizing interior spaces. Her endless encounters with Julia’s “heroes” – the actual artisans and craftsmen whose incredible skills bring Julia’s designs to life - have resulted in partnerships with remarkably talented workrooms where Julia’s endless dreams emerge to sparkle in the light of day.

A combination of Asian simplicity interlaced with the European tradition of craftsmanship have been brought to life by Julia with inventiveness, freshness and style, creating spaces that are breathtaking in scale and charmingly intimate in their remarkable attention to the finest of details.

In 2020 Julia moved to Florence, Italy to begin a new chapter in her life as a designer. She opened a beautiful atelier in the heart of Florence to work amongst the ultra-talented Italian artisans with whom she had worked remotely for many years. From these numerous collaborations of kindred spirits where design, form, and materials are all interconnected, she launched her interior design practice as a logical and irresistible extension of her globally acclaimed product business. Since then, without skipping a beat, she has overseen major projects, in Florence, the Tuscan countryside and in neighboring Umbria. With Florence and its glorious Tuscan countryside serving as an international magnet, Julia’s audience has rapidly grown to include a global clientele for numerous interior design projects.

Julia is now particularly excited to announce the opening of Villa Julia - a personal project of extraordinary beauty, indoors and out, situated in the heart of Tuscany’s Val d’Orcia – a UNESCO world Heritage site – where she has transformed an abandoned farm house into a unique residential showcase of her interior design vision as well as her extraordinary line of home furnishings.