Studio Fenice’s birth coincided at a time when I departed Los Angeles after living there for twenty years. A city where I built a successful business with my husband, Jean de Merry. I left the city of Los Angeles and decided to settle between Meggen, a bucolic small town in the Swiss mountains, and Todos Santos, Mexico, a green oasis surrounded by the hot and dry Baja Sur desert. I selected two places that were offering me opposite lifestyles, cultures, etc. Fenice is the Italian name of Phoenix, the mythological bird that burns itself and is born again from its own ashes so I thought it fitted well with that new chapter in my life.