In the early 1990s, a young Mansi Shah moved with her family from India to California, where she was inspired by her newfound landscape. “The first few years we lived in North Palm Springs, so the California high desert was my first experience of America, its stillness and strange magic,” Shah tells Business of Home . She had always been passionate about design, drawn to it because it felt like a language that could hold both logic and emotion, and she was “curious about how things are made, and how color, form and material shape the way we feel in a space.”

That curiosity took Shah to the California Institute of the Arts, where she graduated with a BFA in 2008. “I learned that design allowed me to experiment, to take risks, to blur the line between image and objects,” she says. “That

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