SANDRA JORDAN
Born in Peru and based in Healdsburg, California, Sandra Jordan is the founder of Sandra Jordan Prima Alpaca, an extensive line of luxury textiles for the design trade. Prized for its exquisite drape and supreme softness, the Sandra Jordan Prima Alpaca collection of residential textiles is known for its spectacular palette and unparalleled sumptuous texture for upholstery and throws to curtains and wall coverings.
ASID California North sat down with her for a Q & A session on some of her favorites:
1. Three favorite travel destinations for design inspiration:
Berlin, Buenos Aires, Seville
BERLIN: PHOTO COURTESY of MUSEUM FUR ARCHIKTURZEICHNUNG | BUENOS AIRES: PHOTO GETTY IMAGES | SEVILLE: ALCÁZAR & GARDENS PHOTO ALAMY
2. Favorite Historical Residence & Garden:
Villa d’Este in Lake Como
PHOTOGRAPHY GRILL, VILLA D’ESTE
3. Favorite museum
It’s a tie. In Madrid the Museo Sorolla – I love this artist’s work and his home is so personal and intimate. In Paris the Musée Nissim de Camondo – a historic house and decorative arts museum – is incredible.
MUSEE NISSIM de CAMONDO | ILLUSTRATION BY EMMA JACOBS FOR THE BOOK THE LITTLE MUSEUMS OF PARIS
4. Dream/Fantasy Dinner Party: who, where, and when?
I would bring together all of my passions in design and art, science and music. I would invite the designer, poet and artist William Morris, the biologist, author and mushroom expert Merlin Sheldrake, the neuroscientist and novelist Nicholas Bazan and the first woman to win the nobel prize, Marie Curie. It would be a Sunday afternoon at 3 pm at my Music Barn here on my Wine Country property. Lili Boulanger (who was a French composer and sister to Nadia Boulanger, who taught Aaron Copeland and many of the 20th century’s most noted composers) would perform.
COURTESY of THE BRITISH MUSEUM
PHOTOGRAPHY by GETTY IMAGES | MUSIC: REFLETS by LILI BOULANGER
RADIUM GIRL from the COLLECTION of LUCY JANE SANTOS | MADAM CURIE COURTESY of IMGBIN
ARTWORK by JOB WOUTER | PHOTOGRAPHY by HANNAH KATRINA JEDROSZ
5. Favorite Design tip(s) you’ve learned through your career:
Scale is everything.
You can mix so many different periods, textures and colors if you have have the scale right.
6. favorite life tip or Mantra to tell yourself & others
“The impossible takes a little longer.”
PRIMA ALPACA SOLID COLLECTION by SANDRA JORDAN
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