Cross Currents(7)

Cross Currents

Heed how light affects the colors and textures in your environment, advises Marcia Bond, who worked for 22 years as an interior designer in California and Washington before “retiring” to run two restaurants and a bakery with her husband, William. Her design career blossomed in the early ’70s, when she worked at a South Pasadena, California, design studio. When she and William moved to Spokane in 1978, she operated a design business there until 1993. Yard sales and secondhand shops have been her favorite shopping venues, supplying clients’ as well as her own home with one-of-a-kind finds. Marcia emphasizes comfort and a “little bit of theater” when she designs. After all, she adds, “I don’t want to live in a space that’s too serious.”  

Marcia is now more apt to be browsing cookbooks than junk shops, but she finds her years as a designer have served her well in the food world. “I’ve read there are cross currents or correlations between fashion and interior design,” she says. “The same is true of food. The trends keep changing together.”

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