Sarah Hiemann I Lebanon, New Hampshire

I grew up in a small town on the Maine Coast. I still dream of the old captains' mansion with servants' quarters in the back and window's walks on top, that I played in as a child. They were mysterious places to me, filled with objects I was not allowed to touch, worn oriental carpets and long staircases. It is the sense of those mansion, their contents and history, which stays with me and continues to inform my own aesthetic, my sense of richness and elegance.