Things from the Sea
Nantucket & Naples Boutique · Co-owner
Coastal lifestyle shop — Nantucket baskets, scrimshaw, fine jewelry. Merchandising, purchasing, fulfillment.
About
A lifetime at the table.
Two decades of seasonal, intimate cooking for affluent and ultra-high-net-worth families — and a parallel life in interiors, retail, and the decorative arts that shapes every plate, every centerpiece, every room.
Deborah's cooking is shaped by season and place. A morning at the market, a basket of figs from the garden, the day's catch off the dock — these are the small, particular decisions that make a private table feel quietly inevitable.
She has cooked through long summers in the Hamptons, winters in Palm Beach, and yacht seasons threading the South of France, Italy, Sardinia, and the Caribbean. The rhythm of a house — or a boat — comes first; the menu follows.
Warmth, discretion, and an eye trained by years in interiors and the decorative arts inform everything she serves.
Beyond the kitchen
A lifestyle background.
Interior Design & Decorative Arts Studio
Co-owner
Furnishings, color consulting, shabby chic restoration, painted floors, and hand-applied faux finishes.
Nordstrom — Visual Merchandising
Windows · Mannequins · Installations
Built display moments designed to lift the everyday customer experience.
Artist · Illustrator · Calligrapher
Commissioned works
Watercolor & gouache illustration, mural painting, and commissioned Japanese calligraphy for interiors.