

While many interior design books are peppered with anecdotes and tips, her guide features “recipes” for every room in the house that show what furniture and decor you’ll need and how to arrange it-down to the inch. It was this venture that ultimately inspired the format for her debut book, Your Space, Made Simple. “You can be very literal or be very creative,” she adds. The best thing about a recipe book? You can take the directions as far as you want.
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“My fiancé is Palestinian, and I was like, let me learn more about your culture-I know how to follow a recipe really well,” recalls Magidson, the founder of Ariel Arts, a Bay Area–interior design studio. But as an adult, it wasn’t until the pandemic that she picked up cooking again. Photography by Belle Morizio Styling by Julia StevensĪriel Magidson grew up riffling through her grandmother’s recipe box.
