Noelle Newell writes about travel, art, artists, and culture through the lens of an interior designer. She shares her travels, museum visits, culinary experiences, and the beautiful places she stays. She has traveled near and far to interview creatives, artists and photographers, interior designers, architects, and chefs. She is passionate about nature, art, architecture, and travel. She is happiest when she can walk everywhere she wishes to go and ditch the car, from her daily neighborhood walks to combing through historic villages and cities. She takes delight in witnessing the change of seasons, from admiring spring blooms to savoring the ease of summer, to the brilliant colors of autumnal leaves, and the festivities of winter.

When traveling, she enjoys revisiting her favorite places as if they were old friends, such as Paris, where she enjoys walking through the Tuileries and traversing Pont Royal to the Rive Gauche, admiring the wares of antique stores, and perhaps popping into a gallery or two before meeting a friend for tea at Cordelia’s Coffee Flower Shop. Followed by a museum visit at the Musée de Cluny and then crossing back through Île de la Cité, and Île Saint Louis to Rue du Pont Louis-Philippe, eyeing the attractive and quaint stores before meeting friends and family for dinner.

Her parents fostered in her a sense of adventure and a sense of how travel can get one's creative juices flowing. Noelle enjoyed traveling with her parents, looking at art and decorative objects in historic city centers, bazars, galleries, and they included her in the process of selecting paintings for their home. In Honolulu, she and her father decided on the perfect Japanese screen painting for their living room.

Her home was a mix of Persian rugs, Canadian landscape paintings, a Japanese screen painting, brassware from a bazaar, bits of antique European porcelain crammed into a gilded French-style cabinet, velvet upholstery, and seashells from the Bahamas and Martha's Vineyard. The color palette of light blues and whites for curtains, upholstery, and walls held the look together. Her personal style is a pared-down version of her parents. Her parents introduced her to European travel at a young age, and she discovered most of it on her own, with friends, cousins, or with her husband and son.

Noelle has worked with prestigious architectural firms since she was a student at David Anthony Easton in New York, where she reported to Mathew Patrick Smyth. She returned to New York after her studies, where she worked with multiple boutique interior design firms on her way up from assistant to senior interior designer. In the year 2000, she moved to Connecticut with her husband, and her career as a designer thrived. She left a plum job with the prestigious architectural firm of David Scott Parker in Southport, Connecticut, to go out on her own as a designer and to write. She has multiple artistic forms of expression and is not limited to one.

Noelle volunteered and worked as a museum educator at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut. She has also worked at The Glass House, Philip Johnson’s historic mid-century home in New Canaan, Connecticut, and later with Grace Farms Foundation in New Canaan, Connecticut.

She earned her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Curry College and her AAS in Interior Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology. After university, she studied at the British Institute of Florence (Art History) and at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London (Decorative Arts). She speaks French, some Italian, and is starting to learn Portuguese.

She lives in Connecticut with her husband and son when he is home from university.