VIV Home & Goods

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VIV offers an eclectic mix of thoughtful design, sustainable products, and heritage goods for the modern home.

06/12/2026

I am not freaking old.

On April 4th, I performed with Ormao Dance Company — at 52 years old, with the same body that first walked into a dance studio when I was 18.

Different life. Same fire.

People love to say things like “52 is the new 40” or “you still have it,” and I know they usually mean it kindly. But I don’t want to be measured against some younger version of myself.

I am not trying to be younger. I am trying to be fully here.

Dance has taught me almost everything I know about design: movement, tension, texture, weight, space, and line.

A room has choreography, too.

The way a rug anchors the floor.
The way a textile pulls your eye across the space.
The way brass catches light.
The way pattern gives a room its pulse.

So when people ask me why VIV looks the way it does — why the rug is so red, why the suzani is so big, why there is pattern on pattern and story layered over story — the answer is simple:

I do not believe in playing small in a body.

And I do not believe in playing small in a room.

This little bathroom almost won.There were at least three different moments when I stood in here and thought, I have mad...
06/11/2026

This little bathroom almost won.

There were at least three different moments when I stood in here and thought, I have made a terrible mistake.

The pink felt too pink.
The pattern felt too bold.
The room felt too small to hold the story I wanted it to hold.

But I kept coming back to what I know is true about beautiful spaces: the rooms that stay with us are rarely the safest ones.

This room started as a love letter to Paris — to bold design, pretty pocket -sized rooms, flowers, gold, and the kind of pattern that feels like it has been there for generations.

It reminded me of the rooms I dreamed of while reading the great classics at William & Mary.
Rooms full of history, characters, drama, and laughter.
Rooms that were alive.

And then, the longer I mulled it over, the more I started seeing something else.

The rhythm in the wallpaper.
The movement in the pattern.
The way a small room could still feel layered, remembered, holding stories and lives.

It became the first little bridge between where I come from and where VIV is going next.

From Paris to Uzbekistan.
From marble and monuments to hand-stitched suzanis.

That is what I love most about design. One room can begin in one place and quietly lead you somewhere completely unexpected.

And this one led me straight to Uzbekistan.

This is not a pattern. It's a conversation between hands. 🧵What you're looking at is a hand-embroidered Suzani from Uzbe...
06/08/2026

This is not a pattern. It's a conversation between hands. 🧵

What you're looking at is a hand-embroidered Suzani from Uzbekistan made by the Kendjaev family, whose craft spans generations. At the heart of that work is Zarina Kendjaeva — the master artisan whose hands and vision bring every piece to life. The background is Ikat, a painstaking resist-dye technique where the pattern is set into the thread before weaving even begins. Every medallion, every vine, every bloom is then embroidered by hand — a single piece taking months to complete.

Suzanis were traditionally made by brides and their families as part of a dowry. Each motif carries meaning — pomegranates for fertility and abundance, rosettes for the sun, and vines for the continuity of life. Nothing is decorative for decoration's sake.

This is the kind of piece that changes a room.

One of a kind. No reorders. Come see it in person, and you'll understand why.

Our pieces are carefully chosen not only for how they look, but the deep human connection they carry with them.When trav...
06/06/2026

Our pieces are carefully chosen not only for how they look, but the deep human connection they carry with them.

When traveling to Uzbekistan, what stood out most to me was the pride they carried in preserving something deeply rooted in culture and history.

You could feel it in the way they spoke about the details.
The patience.
The symbolism behind certain colors and patterns.
The responsibility of continuing a family tradition in a rapidly changing world.

It’s easy to see ceramics as simply functional or decorative. But after hearing the stories behind them, they become something much more personal. Let us help you finds pieces that will fill your home with this same sense of history, culture, and timeless beauty.

I am going to say something that will get me un-followed by half of Colorado, and that is a risk I am happy to take.A be...
06/03/2026

I am going to say something that will get me un-followed by half of Colorado, and that is a risk I am happy to take.

A beautiful home should not feel like it was designed by committee.

It should have a little nerve.
A little memory.
A little “I know this is bold, and I chose it anyway.”

That is where the magic is.

Not in making a room quieter.

In letting it finally say something.

Source pieces from VIV today.

06/01/2026

Some art asks you to understand it.

Diane Reeves’ work asks you to stay with it for a moment.

The lines repeat, overlap, shift, and return — almost like a thought finding its way across the canvas. There is structure here, but not stiffness. Movement, but not chaos. A sense that something is being worked through in real time.

Maybe that is why these pieces feel so at home at VIV.

We are drawn to work that holds a little mystery. Pieces that do not flatten a room, but deepen it. Art that makes a space feel more layered, more personal, more alive.

As we wrap up this month of celebrating generations, memory, and graduations, I’m feeling nostalgic for the beginning of...
05/31/2026

As we wrap up this month of celebrating generations, memory, and graduations, I’m feeling nostalgic for the beginning of my own academic journey.

For me, that place is The College of William & Mary in Virginia — the beginning of my adult life, and the place where the world first began to open itself wide.

It was there that I discovered dance, not casually, but completely. I spent nearly every hour in studios, rehearsals, and aching muscles, determined to earn my place in Orchesis, the college’s modern dance company.

And there were words, too. Long nights with coffee and M&Ms, writing papers on the English Romantic Poets, Moby-Dick, and Paradise Lost. Blue-book exams. Library books stacked beside unmade beds. Dormitory landlines. Ham biscuits wrapped in paper.

Life felt slower then. More tactile. More intimate.

When I think of William & Mary now, I don’t think only of a college. I think of a threshold — a place where art, intellect, exhaustion, beauty, and longing all intertwined.

That feeling still lives in the way I see the world, and in the way I built VIV: as a place for objects with memory, homes with texture, and beauty that asks us to slow down long enough to feel it.

May it be so for many more generations to come.

05/29/2026

I didn't go to Virginia to shop.

I went to see family. To stand in rooms I grew up in. To remember what a home that had been really lived in felt like.

But you know how it goes when you're wired this way.

The brass candlesticks on my aunt's mantel? They're here now. That particular pink of dogwoods in bloom — the one that has nothing to do with trends — I brought that home too. In napkins, in a runner, in the way I've set the front table this season.

There's a Laurel tree growing behind my Aunt Maynard's house. She didn't even know it was a Laurel tree.

This is how VIV is built. Not from a catalog. From a life.

Come see what came home.

Mix your metals!Laurel came back from Virginia with a bag full of brass candlesticks — the kind you’d find at your grand...
05/27/2026

Mix your metals!

Laurel came back from Virginia with a bag full of brass candlesticks — the kind you’d find at your grandmother’s house, slightly tarnished, absolutely perfect.

Everyone wants to tell you that metals need to match. That your home needs a “theme.” That if it doesn’t coordinate, it doesn’t belong.

She disagrees.

The most interesting rooms she’s ever been in — the ones that made you want to stay — were the ones where nothing matched perfectly. Where a piece of history sat next to something found on a trip, next to something someone made by hand.

That’s what a home with story looks like.

Come find the piece that doesn’t quite match — but makes everything better.

Designers! Your sourcing list has a new stop. 🧵VIV World carries artisan-made, vintage, and globally crafted pieces buil...
05/23/2026

Designers! Your sourcing list has a new stop. 🧵

VIV World carries artisan-made, vintage, and globally crafted pieces built for spaces that have something to say. Limited quantities, no mass-market overlap, and every item comes with a story your clients will actually want to tell.

We work with interior designers, builders, and design-adjacent professionals who are tired of finding the same pieces on every trade account. If that sounds like you, we'd love to connect.
Private appointments available. DM us or visit the link in bio to get started.

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80904

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