TIFFANY
HOWELL

What makes Tiffany unusual is that she doesn’t separate design from story. She can begin with a feeling—a piece of music, a film, a memory—and carry it through a room, a product, a name, a campaign and the way the work is ultimately introduced to the world. That is the role she has grown into as creative founder of Night Palm: not simply designing the object, but authoring the point of view around it.

 

For Crate & Barrel, that thinking extended across an 87-piece collection, from product, color and material direction to naming, narrative, campaign and launch. The Poet Sofa for Design Within Reach and her terrazzo tile collections for Concrete Collaborative apply the same instinct at a different scale.

 

Tiffany calls the philosophy behind this The Romance of Ideas: emotion comes first, and every creative decision protects that feeling as an idea becomes real. It’s what allows her to move naturally between interiors, products, hospitality, editorial and cultural collaborations without the work ever losing its voice.