Noz Nozawa

摘要

"Life is more beautiful and more livable when nothing is perfect," says Nozawa, who founded her firm, Noz Design, in 2014. "I like deliberate imperfection, deliberate asymmetry, and messing things up a bit." Thus the marketing manager turned interior designer takes clients' homes and shakes them up, placing a mod cocktail table artfully off-center in one client's living room or commissioning an artist to thickly apply gold liquid resin to a Bay Area parlor's rust-orange walls and let gravity take its course. (She is pictured in her own home.) Non-Western design traditions are an aesthetic constant. Communal heated kotatsu tables that Nozawa has seen on trips to her ancestral Japan (her family emigrated to California in the 1890s) are echoed in groovy conversation pits, while West African and East African objects and artifacts are infiltrating her eclectic vocabulary too. "I'm a huge nerd," the designer says. "I hope I'm always bewildered by something."