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NO. 433 | A JWC MEDIA PUBLICATION
DESIGN DUO MARGOT SCOTT DESIGN BRINGS THE TALENTS OF TWO LAKE FOREST DESIGNERS TOGETHER FOR A LINE OF LOCALLY SOURCED, BESPOKE FURNITURE. BY SHERRY THOMAS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
It’s a busy pre-pandemic Friday morning at Tala Coffee shop in Highwood. Jessica Margot (Federighi) sips a foamy green matcha chai while her business partner Elizabeth Scott enjoys a latte. They are polished and poised and ready to talk about their eponymous Margot Scott Design furniture brand, but there’s also a more intimate sisterhood vibe that might make you think these two Lake Forest designers have known each other for decades. “Should we tell her how we met?” Margot asks, smiling at her partner. The answer was “sure,” as if they were about to let us in on an inside secret—unfolding the story sentence by sentence, each one of them chiming in unison. Both are formally trained interior designers and both formed their own firms around 2004. Scott, who grew up all over the country, moved to Lake Forest to raise her daughters—Isabelle Lisk and Aurelia Lisk—16 years ago. Margot, a North Shore native, lived in downtown Chicago with husband Dante Federighi until about 8 years ago, when she also moved to Lake Forest to raise her two children— Continued on PG 10
Jessica Margot (Federighi) and Elizabeth Scott of Margot Scott Design continue to elevate interiors with their luxury furniture lines. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR