The Cool Drop: The Art of Interiors
Four female-founded design brands shaping how we live.
With every passing year, I understand more deeply how profoundly our spaces shape us. Inspired. Calmed. Energized. The rooms we inhabit have the power to shift our internal state in subtle but meaningful ways.
My senior year of college, I covered an entire wall with torn-out pages from Vogue. When I first moved to Los Angeles, I embraced a bohemian phase. Then came minimalist neutrals, in pursuit of calm.
None of those aesthetics lasted, because none of them meant anything. They were moods. And moods are fleeting.
What has endured are singular discoveries. Pieces found when I wasn’t looking. Books from a small shop in a foreign city. A ceramic bowl that felt too beautiful to leave behind. Objects created by founders who build slowly, with intention, with time.
That is what makes a space feel like yours.
This week, I’m adding a few names to your radar that may be just what your space needs to take shape.
Sur Sur
Small-batch and handmade, my introduction to Sur Sur came through this fringed bedcover discovered in Oaxaca. The kind of piece you will never find through an algorithmic search.
Sur Sur embodies everything we value at C’est Cool. Textiles sourced and designed globally, rooted in tradition, craft, and time. The antithesis of fast interiors and the epitome of luxury defined by intention.
Lily Clark
Less about decoration and more about the inspiration of. Los Angeles-based artist Lily Clark works with stone, ceramic, and metal to shape water itself. Her practice is rooted in fluid dynamics, exploring how water moves, rests, and transforms within constructed forms.
While much of her work is not commercially available, her presence here feels essential. A reminder that interiors are not only about objects, but about our relationship to nature. We evolved within it. Our spaces should remember that.
Jessi Burch
Based in New York, Jessi Burch began with jewelry before translating her expertise in metal into the home.
Her cutlery set alone could transform a dinner table into sculpture. Serving pieces, trays, objects that feel less like décor and more like future heirlooms. Designed to be used, to last, and to be passed down.
Broyt
Founded by RISD graduate Eve Singer, Broyt was born from a reverence for substance over excess. The brand focuses on vintage and one-of-a-kind objects available for both rental and purchase, bridging gatherings and editorial projects alike.
Each piece feels considered. Collected and intentional. A reminder that not everything in a home needs to be owned forever to be meaningful.
The most beautiful interiors are not designed in a weekend. They are accumulated. Discovered. Lived into.
Speak soon,
Kelly