A New Chapter

After more than twenty years of practice, Laura Roberts Design is entering a new chapter.

Over the past year, I’ve been quietly reshaping the work—new projects, new collaborations, and a new live/work studio on the edge of Austin, toward Dripping Springs. Several recent photo shoots have captured this evolution, and more are on the way, including the studio itself this February with the incredibly talented Shade Degges.

Detail from a recent interior project. Photo: Shade Degges

At the same time, I’ve returned to my beginnings as an artist.

I started stitching and sewing as a young girl and purchased my first floor loom at seventeen. I studied fiber at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I was the studio assistant to Anne Wilson, chair of the department. My early work involved burning my weavings and reconstructing them—an exploration of destruction, repair, and transformation.

Early work from my time as a fiber artist. Photo: Andrea Turner

In recent years, I’ve picked up that thread again.

The result is an ongoing body of work titled Landscape of Blessings, where textiles, memory, and place intersect. This journal will be a space to share both sides of my practice—the design work shaped by decades of experience and the art practice that continues to inform how I see, build, and live.

Detail from Landscape of Blessings.

I’m grateful to be here, in this place, attentive to what comes next.

—Laura