This period in Grace’s life was, as she puts it, “brutal.” “I think I kind of outed myself…and that did not go over well in my family or at school.” Just like that, her tidy, well-ordered universe was turned upside-down. Grace’s Design*Sponge empire might have popularized wabi-sabi - or the Japanese principle of finding beauty in imperfection - but beneath the rough-hewn ceramics and salvaged barnwood pieces and the high-low aesthetic at the heart of Grace’s style is a call to order that reminds me of the cheerful rigor I so admired in the well-heeled Midwestern homes I visited growing up: the fabric of a headboard in tune with the long, lined drapes, which in turn harmonized with the piping of the towels in the en suite bathroom - in short, the Laura Ashley life.Īt ten years old, Grace was still living that Laura Ashley life when she suddenly found herself thrown headlong into a period of adolescent turmoil: She fell in love with her best friend, who happened to be a girl. Though I grew up in Michigan more than a decade before Grace, who was born and raised in Virginia Beach, something about her sensibilities has always felt deeply familiar to me. I wasn’t surprised when Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney told me that she grew up wearing Laura Ashley.
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