What better way to see the world than through the eyes of our favorite tastemakers? In Hidden Trails, we look at the places that feel most like home to our community of design insiders — wherever those might be — to help you uncover what their cities have in store for you.
On my most stressful days, I wish the entire world could look anything like the cotton candy-like, cocooning designs of Studio Anva founder Alyssa Anselmo — soft, magical, and created to simultaneously uplift, surprise, and inspire. Characterized by a careful blending of raw materials, plump, fantastical shapes, and easy-on-the-eye pastels, the spaces she crafts respond to an urge for environments that gently embrace and predict our needs, rather than denaturing them. Considering her combined social media following of nearly one million people, chances are I am not the only one to dream myself away into one of Anselmo's soothing projects.
