"When we were pregnant with Quinn, we had to find a 2 bedroom rather than the 1 bedroom we had been in in Tribeca. Both my husband, Ian, and I grew up in California and as nature lovers. I never thought we'd end up in Manhattan's Financial District. There are no trees, tiny streets, and super tall buildings, so not a lot of light and bright apartments. Eight months into pregnancy, Ian found this little 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom corner apartment with a wrap-around terrace with sweeping views of uptown Manhattan, bridges, and rivers on both sides of the island. We sacrificed square footage for the view."

"The Financial District used to be NYC's main commerce area and has really become a residential neighborhood. Our apartment is in an old art deco office building that was renovated into apartments just before we moved in. The doormen who were there when it was an office building said Quinn was the first newborn baby ever to live in the building. Since then, so many families have moved into the neighborhood and Quinn has a lot of friends on our street."

Jessica Antola's Circadian Landscape monograph.

Kate wears a Prada top and Rachel Comey jeans. Quinn wears a Tia Cibani Kids outfit.

"Oh, it's such a mixed bag. I appreciate and find beauty in everything from a found natural specimen to a perfectly designed box and tend to live with it all. So, it gets to be busy in our little apartment. But I try to organize things by color and likeness. All the silver pieces live in the same zone, while all the books are organized by color more for flow and ease on the eyes than by subject."

Cabana Magazine, the River Cafe London: Thirty Years of Recipes and the Story of a Much-Loved Restaurant: A Cookbook, and a Phaidon tome on Ettore Sottsass.

"It's a very organic process and always evolving and pushing and pulling. I don't stick to one style as the things in our home are a mix of family pieces, gifts, and what we've collected separately and together. And we have a 5-year-old who has inherited the 'don't throw anything away! It's so special to me!' mentality. So, we are always moving things around to make something new or old work together."

Quinn's bow is made by Kate, who once toyed with the idea of starting a bow company.

"It's very similar in the way I work on set, whether I'm creating a whole entire room or making a picture in someone's home, with their personal things. Do their things tell a story? Does the set make sense? Does it look good?"

"I think at this point, we've embraced more is more. Just when you'd think you cannot fit anything else into this room, we added a piano! My mother's friend offered us her little art deco Steinway, that had belonged to prominent '60s and '70s social activist Bella Abzug and I loved what it embodied. So, we pushed the sofa to the corner and made room for it! Did I mention our apartment is tiny?"

"Really, everything in our living room has a story. Our friend, photographer Jason Frank Rothenberg, sent us the most beautiful walnut-framed photograph taken in Hawaii. We have a special connection to Hawaii, so it was the first piece of art we've hung on the walls after living here for 5 years and it is perfect above the piano! Our walnut coffee table with butterflied Japanese joinery detail was the first piece of furniture my brother-in-law, designer Luke Bartels, ever made. And our burl wood and faceted pyramid buffet, which belonged to Ian's grandmother, holds everything from her Georg Jensen silver to our own Buccellati silver, china, and crystal collections. It's like our giant treasure box. Oh, God! And the books..."

The coolest, craziest candlesticks.

"I wish I could keep it all in Quinn's room. Unfortunately, that's not reality. She draws, plays, and makes a mess in every part of our apartment."

That mama love.

"I'm a freelance style and art director. I'm currently the Style Director at Domino magazine, where I oversee the content for the print issues along with the Editor in Chief, Jessica Romm Perez. I shoot the stories and help shape the content with a small staff. I've designed 3 tabletop collections for Lenox, with a couple exclusives with Anthropologie and Bloomingdales, and also helped design a textile line for Domino launching at the end of the year. I also consult on a couple other brands and work with Martha Stewart from time to time."

"I grew up in Orange County in Southern California, went to school at California State Fullerton before moving up to San Francisco, where I did flowers for about 10 years, then moved to New York City in 2007. Ian and I got married in 2006 and a client said they were moving to New York full time and suggested I check it out and said I could do flowers for them. In the interim, on one of our trips to look for apartments in NYC, we stopped by the Martha Stewart Weddings offices (they shot our wedding for the magazine) to look at our wedding photos and I was offered a job as a style editor. The plan was to move to NYC for a year, but that was 11 years ago. I still have my 415 cell number."

"I love a color and pattern trend. I really love terrazzo, pastels, brass. I'm into all of it. There's something for everyone. I wish I could have enough space to have a spare austere room."

"I ended up working at Martha Stewart Omnimedia for about nine and a half years and in 2016, when the company sold, I decided to change my career path to spend more time with my then 3-year-old daughter. Up until then, Ian had been freelance and spent a lot of time with Quinn, while I saw her at nights and weekends. For the past couple years, Ian has had a full-time job and I take Quinn to school every morning and she often travels with me, which is super fun for both of us."

"Unfortunately, our families are all out west. But we have an amazing network of friends and sitters. Quinn has a lot of neighborhood friends and I have a lot of friends that love to have girls' days and nights with Quinn. We have a family friend that lives near us who Quinn refers to as her 'sister' and a 'brother' who lives in Pasadena that she sees often when he comes to NYC and we go to CA."

"For now, I try to work it all in together so I make time for all of it. I do wish I had more time to paint. It's one of my favorite hobbies and I rarely find time to practice."

"Of course! Guilt for being too hard on my kid and losing my temper and scaring her is one I've been dealing with a lot lately. I was scared of my mom growing up and while I believe in that, I don't want to kill Quinn's spirit. I have great friends who talk me off the edge and I make sure Quinn and I talk about how I lost my temper. She is very in touch with her feelings and articulates them very well. It's a process that we work through together. She's a very compassionate kid."

"Oh yeah. Lots of words of wisdom from Martha over the years. I think the most personal is she taught me to believe I could do anything. Saying you couldn't do something wasn't really an option. When Quinn was maybe 7 months old, we were at her East Hampton house and she had set Quinn's high chair up next to her while she made breakfast so Quinn could watch her. She said I should expose Quinn to as much as possible as her brain will absorb everything. Then she set the table with a little porcelain tea cup for Quinn and filled it with steamed milk. I thought, 'No way. She is going to break that.' Martha insisted, believing Quinn could drink out of a mini tea cup. And guess what? She did. It's not surprising that the first time Quinn ever used a fork and knife at the table was at Martha's in Maine. Not only did she instill that 'can do' spirit in me, but she certainly passed it on to my daughter. She's a natural teacher."

"I'm always striving to make our lives better. The goal is to spend as much time together as possible."

"It's mixed and dependent on my mood. I like to always be comfortable."

Kate wears a Lincoln jumpsuit and Cartier bracelet.

"Totally. I rarely shop for myself anymore, so I have to get creative with outfits and recycle old looks and mix things up."

"Living in NYC, you basically have two wardrobes—summer and winter. And mine are drastically different. Summer is much more relaxed, while winter is smarter and layered. I like to put on one thing like a dress and keep it simple in the summer, like these Whit dresses I wore for this shoot. I probably have the most Dries Van Noten in my closet than any other designer because I have been wearing his clothes for a long time and have both summer and winter looks. I also have some key Thom Browne pants, shirts, sweaters, and coats. The tailoring for his clothes is incomparable. Because I don't stick to any one style, I wear a lot of different designers with different styles; Cedric Charlier, Prada, Miu Miu, Marc Jacobs, Simone Rocha, Commes Des Garcon, Stella McCartney. I also layer in a lot of vintage and simple cotton button up shirts from Muji. Lately I've been wearing these Lincoln jumpsuits. I have them in all the colors. They're a no brainer, easy outfit, that is comfortable, not too heavy, so you can wear all seasons. I wear them with vans or pointy leopard flats for an everyday look and have worn them with platform heels out at night in Hong Kong. Very versatile for packing!"

Another shelfie, just because...

"I like all products with natural herbal-ly scents. Tata Harper, Aesop for face and body, and Aesop and Rene Furterer for hair. I also love everything by Clary Collection."

"I'm 44 years old and just got a new female doctor who told me I should really consider exercising because I don't. Eeek. I know I totally need to start. Going out to the terrace and pruning my plant is really my form of relaxation."

"It's a work in progress. The bookshelf is an organized chaos of books and tchotchkes structured by color and compatible things. Our headboard is covered in Giove, a pattern of intertwining snakes reimagined from 17th century drawings from Schumacher and Hyman and Herrero's first collection together. I've never been into snakes per se, but the color and detail of the pattern are so beautiful and the symbolism of snakes—transformation, healing, continual renewal of life—made sense. I'm into lilac right now and added the Kartell side table that looks nice with the colors of the headboard. I guess I'm designing our room around the headboard. Since our photo shoot, I've painted the bedroom wall with Farrow and Ball's Calamine paint and hung a 19th century French gilded mirror."

Quinn wears an Atsuyo et Akiko dress.

"Watching Quinn become the person she is. Confident, funny, sensitive, curious, compassionate, loving."

"Watching Quinn become the person she is. I knew it would be fast, but this is much faster than I thought."

Best color mashup.

"I know I would've been happy with a boy or a girl, but we did find out. The nurse wrote it on a piece of paper and Ian and I looked at it over a special dinner. I can still picture the note, 'It's a GIRL!' with stars drawn around it. I love that she says she wants to be a scientist because she's curious. She's been into cameras and been drawing them lately and says she's going to design a new camera. And then she skateboards and plays with dolls with her dad and roughs around with kids. I guess it doesn't matter that she's a boy or girl. She is who she is regardless of gender."

"Quinn Rose Berry is her full name. When I was growing up, my Vietnamese name, Thuy Duong, did not have any English translation and it was difficult for people to pronounce. It was tough. So, Katie (while having nothing to do with Thuy Duong) was a name that we liked and was easy to pronounce. I won't go into all of that now, but you can imagine how confusing that can be for a child. One of my only Vietnamese friends from growing up was named Quynh, which has the same pronunciation as Quinn. I wanted to have a name for my child that had the same English pronunciation as well as Vietnamese. We liked the name Quinn. And then decided on Rose on a whim as it was Ian's great grandmother's name. Quinn also means wisdom, reason, and intelligence. We figured, that paired with Rose would be a good mix. Ian and I also liked the way Quinn looked aesthetically with the spelling of it with double N's as Berry has double R's."

"Yes."

"I loved being pregnant. I had a miscarriage just before I got pregnant with Quinn, so I was so grateful every day I was pregnant."

"I was working at Martha Stewart Omnimedia at the time and took a break from maternity to go on a real wedding shoot for Weddings, as I was also a guest. Ian was freelance at the time and had a super flexible schedule. So, we all traveled together when Quinn was 10 weeks old. It was Quinn's first trip out of the country, first time in the ocean, first time sleeping through the night, and first time having formula (which she barfed out right before we sat down to dinner) because I left her whole cooler of breast milk on the plane."

"Advice from friends has always been the best source of advice for me."

"I really think every mother and child relationship is so unique and personal so I can't say I have any 'mom icons.'"

"Long story, short. I grew up in the suburbs of Orange County in Southern California and my parents worked really hard to provide a good life for me and my two older brothers and younger sister. We were loved but it wasn't easy. Quinn's life is the complete opposite of my life as a child."

"Quinn is 5 years old and has always been into drawing and aspires to draw as well as her dad. She loves Legos, but prefers to create her own structures opposed to following the instructions. Ian really supports this while, initially, I prefer to follow the building instructions, then break it down and recreate. Quinn's current short term goals: getting an LOL doll and doing a head stand without wall support."

"I love Livia Cetti's potted paper flowers made for Quinn's dresser and the big tissue and mylar flower branch, a gift to Quinn from Julie and Nick from Confetti System. Combined with the Josef Frank bunk bed curtains, they give the room an organic feel. Quinn says she loves her branch. 'It's really cool,' she says. She also loves her bunk bed and curtains. 'I like my curtains a lot. They give me privacy.'"

We're loving this bright palette.

"Oh yeah, for sure. It's top of mind for everyone with children. I feel very fortunate Quinn is surrounded by super strong and compassionate women of all ages and stories. She spends a lot of time with our friends with and often without me and has formed her own opinions about the political climate and we talk about it. She is going to a school this September that champions social justice, racial, educational and economic equity, peace and compassion. Activism is part of the curriculum. As a mother, it's more important to me now more than ever to try to stay informed so I can help her navigate this crazy world."

"Unfortunately, no."

"I think about it more that she is getting older and pays attention to what I do so much more. It's a lot of work being a good person all the time! She has so many role models in my friends as well, so I love that she has relationships and role models other than me."

"For the most part, we are pretty laid back and give her room to grow and make her own choices to be independent. We take Quinn pretty much everywhere with us. We'll get a sitter at night if we go to a dinner with another couple and know Quinn would rather hang with a sitter, but she usually will go to parties with us and crash on the sofa when she's tired. She enjoys socializing with our friends. We also entertain a lot, so our home is always buzzing with friends. We have a lot of fun together. I do put a fear in her and rule with an iron fist to keep her in check in all seriousness. Ian gives her a bit of a longer leash but we remain a united front and it's great to be consistent together. But I am definitely the strict parent compared to Ian."

Table's set...with Kate's Lenox x Domino designs for Anthropologie.

"Oh wow. I have several friends having babies soon. So far, its just been the nuts and bolts advice of what they need to do to prepare with gear. But I would say having help the first couple weeks so you can get a lot of sleep is super key. We had a night nurse come stay with us for the first week and she taught me everything that week. On top of that, I got to sleep! She would come wake me up at night to feed Quinn and then I'd go back to sleep to get the rest I needed to feel sane in the day. She taught me how to clean Quinn, change her diapers, swaddle, all of it. I didn't have any weird fears of the unknown because I knew I had a pro with me. That peace of mind was priceless."

"I love that she is understanding how to navigate the city and she is street smart. She sees so much out there and asks a lot of questions. It's great for her curious mind."

Kate wears a Whit dress. Quinn wears an Eberjey Mini dress.

"We would love to. Maybe the West Coast again."

Umbrella and floor pillows by Serena & Lily.

"We love going to the farmers market because I can shop and Quinn can play at the playground. It's a win-win for all of us and sometimes we get to go have sushi at Sugarfish nearby. So, that makes Ian very happy. Ian's grandmother lived across the street from the Met, so when he'd visit New York as a child, he'd spend a lot of time in that museum. We love going there as a family and Quinn goes with sitters. Its a special place for us. The Odeon is one of our regular spots and the first restaurant we took Quinn to when she was a week old. One of Quinn's favorite foods are clams and spaghetti, so we have a local neighborhood restaurant called Da Claudio's that makes it just for her."

Balcony garden bounty.

"It's kind of a new experiment. We've grown tomatoes and herbs in the past, but this is the first year we went full-on. After not having access to the terrace for the past year (because of building renovations), we were itching to have that space back. We got a great narrow dining table and benches, umbrella, and lounging accessories from Serena & Lily and my friend and landscape designer, Kimberly Von Koontz, and I loaded (stuffed) her mini SUV up with trees and plants. It took about a week to get it all up and into pots."

"We have some pretty ornamental trees and plants; a Japanese Maple and Stewartia, Smoke Bush, several varieties of Honeysuckle, Trumpet vine, and grasses. But we mostly grow herbs, fruits, and vegetables. We have a couple fig trees, Black Mission and Brown Turkey, one Bosc pear espalier, a couple miniature plums, snap peas, green beans, Japanese eggplants, Fraises des bois, lemon verbena, mint, basil, parsley, chives, rosemary, thyme, cilantro, dill, lettuces, and a ton of Sungold, dark red, red and pink cherry tomatoes. We noticed a bumble bee buzzing around after the first week and now a bunch of them got word. It's amazing they found their way up to the 34th floor! The care of this is a major labor of love. We don't have an outside water source so Ian ran a long hose to the east side of the terrace and we have an attachment that hooks up to our kitchen sink. Because everything is in pots, we have to really keep up on watering. I spend a good hour out there in the mornings, 4-6 days out of the week, and then Ian tends to it if I'm traveling. We are looking into installing a greenhouse to house all the plants for the winter. Keeping my fingers crossed that it works. The Japanese maple has hung in there for several years without a greenhouse, so I'm optimistic."

Garden girls.

"We totally eat from the garden. Because our tomatoes and basil are so prolific, we roast the tomatoes and serve with stracciatella, EVOO, and bread. I garnish the board with a couple sprigs of basil and voila! super easy and impressive presentation. We've also really been into crispy pork with fresh herbs and rice in lettuce wraps. It's the easiest quick after-work meal to prepare. And the bonus is we get all the greens from our garden."

"Quinn doesn't start school for another three weeks! But Ian and I always joke about how she eats a way better lunch than us. I always make it with a protein or pasta, a few veggies and fruit. And it's usually very colorful. And always super healthy. But I only have to pack lunch on Fridays once Q starts the new school, which has a farm upstate that supplies all the food for the school. It's an amazing program."

"Quinn's a very adaptable kid and she's excited about starting her new 'Martin Luther King, Jr School' (what she calls it). It's really called Manhattan Country School. It's all the way uptown, so the commute will be an adjustment, but I think it'll just be a new adventure on the subway."

Kate wears a Whit dress. Quinn wears Tia Cibani Kids.

"Since we live in a rental, we couldn't remove the shiny green tile and cabinets from our kitchen. So, we covered the tile with a Hermes/Dedar Jardin d'osier wallpaper and put glass on top. Now your eye is drawn to the pattern rather than the ugly cabinets."

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