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Henrietta Southam Design is a full-service design firm based in Ottawa, Canada. Admired for resident

17/09/2026

A small surprise for my peers, clients, friends and family: I have set up a wee slice of my world inside Social where my favorite photographers will be taking formal portraits of those who have accepted to come to the launch of my visual podcast « Wild & Ragged » this evening at 5. It is a small gift of gratitude to a small circle of die hards who have shown up for me in many ways. Mothers and wives especially seem always to be the ones taking the photos, never to be in them. And they deserve a slice of the spotlight. Grab a Masai club, sit on a leather rhinoceros, be the Wildren. Children of the Wild & Ragged. Those who always only slightly fit in will finally have found the home they want to come back to.

16/09/2026

Today is a special day because it is the day before tomorrow and I count myself amongst the lucky few that have a tomorrow. Tomorrow I celebrate the launch of something slightly out of left field, and like the eponymous flower of said dusty land, it has grown from seedling to resilient bloom. I figured these times called for a shift, a spoken perspective, a visual counterbalance to the life I have worked on living and lived to work for. With a few gathered good people I have created a mini world I call « The Frontier ». This place is where have decided to rest some weary mother-bones and start building a space that feels like a second skin. Not the one I was born into, the one I wove alone until I found the first few echoes in my nascent world. Tomorrow this mini-universe will come alive as a sub-website within my own name and shall continue evolving safely there until it is ready to fly unaided. What we have created is Wild & Ragged. Like us. Where imperfection is not only created but celebrated. I have a legion of creatives, yes a legion, who follow me here, and this part of my career will be dedicated to them. The overlooked, the invisible, the fragile, even the hollow. I love you very much.

12/09/2026

You know what’s better than a happy winner??? A happening loser!!!! 117,000 votes and 50 countries in the room. I will say Canada was undermanned this night. However it was brash, it was joyous, and I got to share it with the coolest cats. We were home at 3am, slept for 3 hours, got to the plane, landed back in Canada, and this will be my goodnight kiss to you all. I cannot thank you enough for voting, I know a lot of you did, and that kind patience will not be forgotten. I have pretty huge news to share in the next week so stay tuned!

04/09/2026

My Instagram Boyfriend has done me a solid. By no coincidence I feel dressed by my good Canadian friends: Bruce’s Tarot Card silk scarf from the Morgan Collection, Whitney’s maroon linen jacket and Mauricio’s Ode to Schiaparelli brooch. Can we talk about Brown’s raffia Louis XIV shoes? London is about to hit me with its energy and I am SO ready for her.

30/08/2026

Waking up to a home empty of all the children you put out in the world… is a special kind of silence. A void that cannot be filled because it had been. To the brim. I looked at my empty glass before I opened my eyes and filled it with every hope for them, for us, for me. Some would call this prayer. I came downstairs and opened my phone to well wishes from around the world. From old classmates from France who had just sent their last one off that very day. From a babysitter who works at Via Rail saying she could upgrade any ticket bought to go home. From my Norwegian Viking super model friend who laughed at our shenanigans. From my girlfriends who have been there and survived. From those about to see their last ones leave next year. It was life affirming, it was community building, I felt supported, surrounded, cherished. Then my friend and neighbor came through the door with a hand painted card and a written note that answered my one doubt. My morning face scrubbed of makeup, mascara and all the hopeful pretense of yesterday came undone. It is hard to hold your breath. It was good to let it out. I can now start this period of my life knowing I did well by my children. We made it. We set the course. We took the hills. They reached the sky. And now they fly. Alone. With the wings I gave them. I couldn’t be prouder. Their independence, their grit, their gumption, my biggest badge of honor.

20/08/2026

A few different perspectives of Artful Agora that you may not have seen. Henrietta Southam Design is nominated in 3 categories at the International Design and Architecture Awards in London UK this September. Voting is open and boy am I asking for your support. Nothing good comes easy and this includes the voting process for this prestigious event.

I have put the the voting link in my Bio and was advised by many of my friends to write down the way to vote properly.

First off, voting from a laptop is much easier.

Secondly, and this is extremely important: you have to vote in EVERY category to have the vote count. I am in SECTION ONE and TWO.

In Section One I am in categories #4 (Best Interior Design Scheme Canada) and #23 (Best Renovation in the £1-2.5M category).

In Section Two I am in #10 (Best Renovation/ Restoration Global… that’s right… in the entire world).

Ottawa is up against GIANTS in the business. We are competing with living spaces in the Mandarin Oriental, 4 Seasons Hotels, Amanyara Resorts, with pictures taken by Legendary Photographers in their own right. Douglas Friedman that’s you and hiiii!!

It is a long shot but I am taking it. One vote per email and phone number. Just one.

This does take around 20mns each especially if you get into looking at all the pretty interiors.

There is a lot more news coming in about Artful Agora that I will be sharing, but for now, asking for votes is the one mission I have. I love my followers, they are mighty and tenacious and so, soooo passionate. I just wanted to thank you for being here. I am beyond grateful for your support.

All my love,

Henrietta

12/08/2026

🇨🇦📣Voting is Live! Artful Agora is up for 3 major nods at the International Design and Architecture Awards and we are PSYCHED!!!🇨🇦📣

27/05/2026

Calling in a big tantalizing morsel of news! As a child born into a press Empire, the likes of which did NOT turn out to be Murdochian, I have always keenly felt the importance of an independent press with no publisher « oversight » on editorial. So imagine being interviewed by the friggin . The Wall. Street. Journal. I revere their clout, their excellence, their perseverance, their survival instincts and indomitable grit. You may have heard they are one of the last hold outs of democratic expression and freedom of press south of our border. I revere this newspaper. So to have to borrow keys from another volleyball parent to take a call in a rental car in a Calgary parking lot to speak with Laura Hine? Just bear with me while I dine out on this for a year will y’a? If this makes it to publication, you bet you’ll be the first to hear about it. If it doesn’t, I’ll still be smiling from ear to ear. That and bring back telephone booths.

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