Liya Sharif Lancia

Design is all about attention to detail. Materials and textures bring the flow. What makes beautiful complete and balanced built environments? Just a few
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Last night. It’s all about emotional impact, similar to advertising. #designelements

Two dinner tables divide the space into a sitting arrangement that is personal, intimate and still allows for larger parties. Table scape is inspired by Gaudi, what’s in bloom and the mood of the moment. Let it unify and connect around the meal and conversation. #design #interiors #mydesign

Cabriole

This is how I feel today. Time to uplift. #dance #life #notpolitics

Next iteration of the nearly completed guest suite. Facing east, this coastal room is coming together with in clean, light, beach inspired aesthetics. Next are finishing the walls, plus other final touches. #design #architecture #interiors #mydesign

La Jolla California. This is why we live here. This is so simple - Sunday sunny and beautiful. #life #inspired #sandiego #nature

I have been working on this coastal room - work in progress, but space is slowly forming, and the sheer curtains mid room create the geometry break in a very long room. More soon… #design #arxhitedtuee #interiors

Marly is ready for holidays. #cats #play

Designing is like marketing and advertising, similar process - always start with a strategy and concept, the vision that holistically drives the theme and evokes emotional response. #design #marketing #brand

In celebration of the reopening of Notre Dame, the Christmas tablescape reminds of #architecture #nortredame #builtenvironments #design #christmas

And another progress update on the Coastal studio room in my house: the concept of the “serene flow” is
slowly coming to fruition. More photos for the complete redesign before and after soon! #friday #design #interiors #architecture

Friday Design moment - decorating the
Christmas tree can have a powerful effect of arranging layers, colors and mixing textures. See everything as an opportunity for expression of your #creativity. #design #textures

Friday design moment… assembled these flowers for the gathering at our house tomorrow. Whimsical, soft and graceful. #design #flowers

Pure love and the new cat tree. Not only Marly loves it, it is designed to fit into the environment, whimsical, aesthetically pleasing, unlike most cat trees. #maupets #design #love

I visited this recently, the queen of curves never fails. Another collection
In my visits of buildings by #ZahaHadid - oh how brilliant she was. #architecture #lines #curves #design #maxximuseum #rome

Simplicity of lines and curves together!

Dancing is one of the fastest ways to generate ideas and fuel increased creative output. Those of us trained in dance know it drives a state mind and body agility. Dancing generates agility of mind - motion, rhythm, vibrations, patterns, it a brain trainer like no other. #dance #creativity #art

Oh did! Where do you normally reside? Nice to
Meet you Robert.

The Remodel of a large guest room - this beach coastal style #room with the view of a canyon in our La Jolla home is beginning to take shape - more photos soon. Excited how this ceiling light will cast shadows adding the virtual sun rays layer. #design #interior #architecture #mydesign

A Beautiful family of doves set up their home on our tree. The symbolism is special - kindness, protection, love, peace, freedom - much welcomed transition! #nature #friday #beauty #birds #doves

The colors of fall, earthy, bright, saturated. Nature knows #design. #tints

Another one: green disappears into the fog where the ocean lies. #thanksgiving #day

Happy Thanksgiving and gratitude from the foggy La Jolla, CA. The earth that holds us, our insecurities, talents, confusion, accomplishments, travels and happiness is on my mind during a joyful walk. #earth #health #fog

I love this quote and images used here. Beautiful and simplistic yet brilliant Le Corbusier.

This Georgian eggplant dish with the famous walnut sauce, coriander spices, layered with tomatoes and onions, is from the family archives recipe. Yum. Must include Georgian spices and cilantro for the full experience. #thanksgiving week #cooking #culture #georgia #country #tbilisi

Thanksgiving holiday is the one I appreciate (no pun) the most. On that week, people go deeply
within to recognize and be grateful for what is here, and now. We all unite around common humanity, we are less polarized and more humbled on #Thanksgiving #giving #cats #holidayseason #family #world

The Sunday walk reveals this #Craftsman homes neighborhood in #goldenhills #sandiego -
our city carries gentle layers of character and history in its historic #architecture - this is just one style of several the city relishes in. #culture #builtenvironments

Here are the podcasts I listen to for media, business, politics, tech or culture The Daily, the NewYorkerRadioHour, Pivot, The Ezra Klein show, plus now am exploring Smartless
And All-In #Podcasts I am
looking for recos on #Design, #architecture as well as #art podcasts. Any suggestions?

Finished the novel by Hernan Diaz, Trust. Beautifully constructed literary puzzle, falls into place as the ending reveals what is unexpected and profound. Women in particular may find this curious, uncover old tropes of meritocracy & how power can manipulate facts. #book #review #pulitzerprize

Rarely it is so
Clear to be able see #goldengatebridge in #sanfransisco. What a sight. The lines of the bridge, the repetition of clouds is unison in nature #design. #architecture #mimicry

Dancing allows to fuse mind and body for agility and creativity; one can take it to all areas of life, professional, marketing, creative, personal - it broadens & deconstructs the systems that are often dormant. Returned to the tango training this week. #dance #art