A collection about food, friends, and everyday...

Growing up, my New York Italian grandparents would come to visit our family in the small Texas town where we lived. Along with their luggage they would lovingly pack boxes of groceries with the ingredients they needed to cook all of the meals during their stay. I remember standing in the airport watching as boxes of fresh fruits, herbs, mozzarella, cans of tomatoes, pasta etc.. would roll off the baggage claim, creating the scent of a New York bodega as they passed by. 

To my grandparents, food was love, it was the center of the home, gathering around the table, all of us gobbling up the meal they spent the entire day in the kitchen preparing, was their greatest joy. 

In college I studied architecture, taking me to Italy for a semester of study abroad, an experience that took hold of my heart. The day I graduated, I packed my bags and a one way ticket and returned as a staff member of the school. I worked in the kitchen with the two cooks who lovingly made our family style meals, all prepared with simple fresh ingredients. Their cooking and love of food echoed that of my grandparents. As staff, we served the meals, made coffee drinks and sold bottles of wine that we would decant from local "wine stations." The experience of living there fundamentally shaped me as a designer. It changed my perspective on life, it taught me how to cook and most importantly the value I placed on everyday items surrounding this daily ritual.

Our Linen Collection: 

My American roots are stories of immigrant city life, bodegas, Italian dinners, and rooms full of family celebrating milestones. As adults we gravitated to city (urbs) centers. We think of city life as a cultural collage that inspires our creativity. To us, Urbs is family, friends and food. It is people sharing life, ideas, conversation, and laughter. Our linen collection is an ever expanding collage of prints that celebrate city life: the overgrown foliage, the small daisies growing between the sidewalks, median meadows, splatters on the pavement. They are a visual library of the things we notice when walking around and are meant to adorn the table, rest on our laps, and wipe our faces.