Lauren Geremia
Guest Curator
Photo Credit: Maria del Rio
“The art that stays with us is rarely what we rationalized—it’s what we couldn’t stop thinking about.”
Lauren Geremia is the founder and principal of Geremia Design, a California-based interior design studio and art consultancy. She approaches interiors through mood, narrative, and material tension to create homes that feel like a story unfolding and collected over time. Love letters, as she describes them, to lives well lived.
Trained as a painter at the Rhode Island School of Design, Lauren does not hold art and interiors as separate disciplines. The spaces she’s drawn to are the ones where a conversation is happening between the architecture, furnishings, objects, and the art on the walls. She pays close attention to what people respond to emotionally—what sparks curiosity, what feels familiar, what challenges them—because those instincts often reveal more about a person than any design brief could.
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“I’m drawn to artists with a strong point of view—people experimenting, refining their voice, and pushing their practice forward.”
Her instinct for emerging artists goes back to her time at RISD. She was surrounded by artwork that felt fresh, deeply personal, and unlike anything else she was seeing. Early in her career, Lauren began sourcing works from her classmates—and it’s shaped her eye for choosing up-and-coming artists.
When we default only to what’s already established, she believes, we miss the chance to discover work that feels truly fresh and to build collections that reflect our own curiosity.
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That’s also why Lauren still leads with love when selecting artwork. You’re going to live alongside it, so art that exudes what one of her clients calls a “full-body yes”—that immediate feeling when a piece just clicks—is the work you can count on to move you years later.
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Her hope for anyone browsing is simple: that they find work that sparks an emotion, a memory, or a question. If you discover an artist you didn’t know before and can’t stop thinking about the work afterward, that’s the best outcome she could hope for.
Lauren’s Picks
Pony by Charlotte A Cornish
Bird Nest Goddess
by Emma Plunkett
Desert 1
by Aesha Kennedy
Hollingbury 5 by Roberta Young