Julia Demer

1 week ago | livingetc.com | Julia Demer

Recently, I returned to my childhood home in Southern California for an extended stay — which meant sleeping in my childhood bedroom. The space itself is fine (redesigned by yours truly in my late teens), but one detail quickly became a problem. By night one, it was annoying. By night three, it was impossible to ignore: the bedding. I hated it. Temperature-regulating? Not remotely. Fluffy? Absolutely not. Seventeen-year-old Julia had clearly never heard of performance fabrics — or, apparently, comfort.

1 week ago | livingetc.com | Julia Demer

Mother-daughter design duos are rare — not just because they don't happen often, but because translating that bond into business is a delicate art. The stakes are emotional, the feedback personal. But when it works, the result is often more than the sum of its parts: a kind of inherited intuition, sharpened into something both commercially viable and aesthetically alchemical.

1 week ago | livingetc.com | Julia Demer

The night might fall on Melrose Avenue, but it’s always sunny inside 8804. Jacquemus’ new 2,800-square-foot flagship is a yellow-accented homage to the South of France — brick herringbone floors, beamed ceilings, limestone clay–stuccoed walls, and just enough storied, patinated detail to make the new design feel old, and the grandeur of the brand’s fifth global location feel, somehow, humble. But don’t get distracted by the architecture. The real stars aren’t even the handbags or the shoes.

1 week ago | livingetc.com | Julia Demer

Nina Takesh has always treated design as a dialogue — between eras, influences, and disciplines. Between form and function. Between Rive Droite refinement and California cool. Her newly launched line, Nina Takesh Furniture, is the latest chapter in that conversation: a tightly edited collection of fourteen pieces, each one a prompt for a more beautiful life. “Furniture,” she says, “is where beauty meets function in the most intimate way.” This wasn’t about a single chair or one-off accent.

2 weeks ago | livingetc.com | Julia Demer

Like skincare, but lazier. These soft, shiny, smugly superior silk pillowcases do all the work while you sleep. (Image credit: Mayfairsilk; Brooklinen; LILYSILK; Walmart; Bloomingdale's; Anthropologie; Quince; Saks Fifth Avenue)Jump to category:FAQspublished30 April 2025There’s a reason I pack a silk pillowcase (or two) in every suitcase. Some might call it high-maintenance.