meet mireille

Our Founder

Mireille Dermer Mengel’s instinctive fashion sense, honed at OTIS College of Art and Design, practiced while working at denim companies and fashion start-ups, and relaxed with years of living at the beach in Southern California, earned her professional admirers, including the team working on a Frank Gehry-designed hotel, who hired her for advice about upcoming trends and emerging styles. But it’s the friends who visited her home who gave her the confidence to take a break from her career in fashion and apply her innate talent to interiors.

“Friends would often ask where I bought this bowl or that candle holder. But the answer is never simple. I have been incredibly fortunate to travel, spending a week or sometimes more in places like Australia or Denmark and while there I obsessively absorb the culture, the people and the way they express themselves in their personal spaces. In the process I grab things that resonate with me – in shops of course – and bring them home.” Through her friend’s eyes, Mireille began to notice that her own laid-back but luxe living style resonated with people and that she had something to offer. An Inside Crush was born.