To flirt with the forbidden is a compulsion; an insatiable curiosity driven by the powerful tension between knowing and not knowing; between having and not having. This torturous delay of satisfaction conjures the most excruciating delight, the ultimate power belonging to s/he who holds the other in thrall.

If my work is a study in such pursuits — an exploration of the realm between mystery + mastery in both mind + matter — then THE ORDER is my story, scripted in liminality and told through miles of dark and beautifully tangled thread. Poised to transmute at any moment, mine is a narrative whose medium is impossible to tame. . .

L E O N A invites you to revel in a new transmutation as quotidian objects are elevated into the realm of the indulgent + forbidden, THE ORDER’s delicate sartorial edge now applied to the tablescape. A fêted food will kindle each collection, or ‘assemblage,’ playfully exalted through curious pieces designed to delight + mystify.

I hope you love these objects as much as I loved conjuring + creating them.

. . .I’m just a party girl, after all.

— Nicole Maret | proprietress + designer