Welcome to The Meaning of Home, the new Livingetc series asking the big questions that shape, undo, and rewrite the way we live, think, and feel between our domestic walls. Through essays, interviews, and personal stories grounded in design, each piece explores what our spaces say about us — and the concealed universes they embody — by tapping into culture, psychology, history, politics, storytelling, and economics.
"I was standing in a factory in China watching lots of cheap shoes going down a line, and I remember thinking, 'I don't want to be doing this,'" recalls Beth Swade of a pivotal moment in her 15-year career as a shoe designer.
