Ameé Allsop on Embracing Your Current Season

Ameé Allsop is a New York-based architect who is learning to embrace a new season in her life. The last time we met was while photographing her home for my book Still: The Slow Home. She shares her journey transitioning through the different seasons of her life as an architect, furniture designer, wife and mother.

THIS EPISODE FOCUSES ON

• Growing up in a creative and resourceful household.

• Moving to New York with her family at a young age.

• Interning for an interior architect in Manhattan at the age of 13.

• Studying architecture at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• The influence of Troppo architects on her design ethos.

• The importance of respecting materials, proportion, space and light in design.

• Working for architect Paul Johnson.

• Working for architect Peter Stutchbury.

• Learning to appreciate the design process.

• Her first solo project and the lessons she learnt in.

• Transitioning from architecture to furniture design and creating her first collection.

• Becoming a mother and adapting her creative practice to suit this role.

FEATURED ON THIS EPISODE

• Ameé Allsop Studio

• Ameé’s instagram @ameeallsopstudio

• My book Still: The Slow Home

• University of New South Wales

• Troppo architects

• Mr & Mrs White

• Peter Stutchbury

• Red Dirt Road project in the Hamptons, NY

• Poet and artist Annette Kelsey

• Artist and designer Charlotte Perriand

• Artist Eva Hesse

• Artist Georgia O’Keeffe

• Architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray

• Book Then Again by Diane Keaton

• Athena Calderone’s podcast More Than One Thing

Podcast production: Yaga Media