“The hardest thing is to do simple, but that’s what we love: simple and smart,” says Adair Curtis (opposite, left) of the decorating, staging, and product-design studio that he cofounded with Jason Bolden, his celebrity fashion-stylist husband. “I hope I’m always bewildered by something.” -Mitchell Owens Communal heated kotatsu tables that Nozawa has seen on trips to her ancestral Japan (her family emigrated to California in the 1890s) are echoed in groovy conversation pits, while West African and East African objects and artifacts are infiltrating her eclectic vocabulary too. (She is pictured in her own home.) Non-Western design traditions are an aesthetic constant. “I like deliberate imperfection, deliberate asymmetry, and messing things up a bit.” Thus the marketing manager turned interior designer takes clients’ homes and shakes them up, placing a mod cocktail table artfully off-center in one client’s living room or commissioning an artist to thickly apply gold liquid resin to a Bay Area parlor’s rust-orange walls and let gravity take its course.
“Life is more beautiful and more livable when nothing is perfect,” says Nozawa, who founded her firm, Noz Design, in 2014.
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