I'm Shana. Growing up Vietnamese and Jewish American, my identity was always described in halves — until I learned to say it whole, in French, after moving to Paris in 2019.

This is the same approach I bring to interiors. I don't ask people to choose which parts of themselves belong in a room. I bring all of you together in one space. I ask questions most designers don't think to ask, and I translate your answers into space — the same way I once had to translate myself, piece by piece, until I finally felt whole.

I came to interiors by way of a civil engineering and project management undergraduate degree from the U.S. — which is maybe why I see space structurally and emotionally at once. Before dedicating my career to high-end interiors in Paris, I directed $30M USD annual project portfolios as a project manager and managed global cross-functional teams of up to 300 staff members.

Following my corporate career, I trained in Interior Decoration and Decorative Arts at L’Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués (LISAA) in Paris, with all of the coursework in French, a language I was just learning at the time. Today, I combine that rigorous corporate discipline and technical fluency with a master-level knowledge of French historic aesthetics.

I design for lives lived between cultures, because I live one myself.