Less is More – 

It was love at first sight – a relationship based on mutual respect and a common aesthetic. As Enrique and I embarck on the most ambitious journey of our twenty one year relationship, we’re leaning heavily on our trust in each other and our love of beauty. We’re becoming radical minimalists. 

Living as a minimalist does not mean living like a hermit in a cave in tora bora – far from it.  Minimalism asks us to strip away the unnecessary, to remove the non-essential and reject mass consumerism. So, last week that meant saying goodbye to the Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chairs we had in our living room. Van de Rohe, a minimalist himself, was most famous for saying, “God is in the details,” and “less is more.” He believed that an inspired life requires very little, but those few items should be the very best in the world.

Our apartment has always been fairly minimal, but, now we’re experimenting with letting go of more “non-essentials” to give the universe room to write a new chapter in our lives. We’re allowing space for the miraculous and the truely beautiful to transform our lives. We’re embracing minimalism in a very aggressive way – think Henry David Thoreau on crack. A new aesthetic is being born – less is more.