BY DESIGN

Part-time Neapolitan designer, Shelley Johnstone Paschke, blends European sensibilities with American practicality

JANE E. ENOS

“Creating beautiful, timeless spaces to be lived in and enjoyed.” Those are the pragmatic words Shelley Johnstone Paschke has lived by and has committed to throughout most of her 30-year career as a designer. “Any designer can make things look pretty,” explains Johnstone Paschke. “I try to create spaces where memories can be made; I want places to be livable. There’s little point to having pretty things if they can’t be useful.” When she’s not traveling the country for speaking engagements, design-related events, or client projects, Johnstone Paschke splits her time between her home in Lake Forest, Illinois, and her Bay Colony residence in Naples. While she does design work for clients back in Illinois—and in several other states, too—she relates that more than half of her business is Naples-based…

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Naples Illustrated (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2022

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