A Case for Color By Hannah Stiff
photo credit: Story Street Studio
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Story Street Studio duo launch Bozeman presence with panache & humility
P
eople keep saying wallpaper is coming back into vogue,” Laura Stanley tells me during our first conversation on the phone. “Did it ever go out of style?”
Not for Stanley or her design partner Lizzie Bailey. Together the pair make up Story Street Studio, a new interior design firm with offices in Bozeman and New York City. Stanley and Bailey recently joined forces to create the firm but bring more than 25 years of experience to the table. They’re also hoping to bring a little more color and a maybe even some wallpaper to Bozeman homes. Story Street Studio is a full-service, residential interior design firm. Stanley and Bailey specialize in creating
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livable, gorgeous spaces from the ground up. They prefer transforming entire houses rather than single rooms because a home needs cohesion throughout its spaces, the team explains. Both halves of the Story Street Studio brand honed their design chops on the East Coast. After earning an Art History degree from the University of Georgia, Stanley landed in New York working for acclaimed textile designer John Robshaw. From her work with Robshaw, Stanley fell in love with bold colors and patterns. Robshaw is well known in the interior design industry for hand block printed fabrics sourced from India. After her time in textiles, Stanley moved on to working in the decorating and collecting departments at Martha Stewart Living Magazine and later as Style Editor for Country Living Magazine. Styling photo
