Danuta Circle

Meet the Danuta Circle - a growing community of friends who weave formulas into their daily rituals. Each story reflects the grounded and intentional spirit at the heart of Danuta

Welcome to the circle.

Donna Lennard
Donna Lennard
In 1994, when Donna Lennard co-opened a neighborhood enoteca off the Bowery in Manhattan, the process had a familiar ring. “Il Buco was a little independent film production in a
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Alex Tieghi-Walker
Alex Tieghi-Walker
The curator and gallerist Alex Tieghi-Walker lives with easygoing pageantry. For the past two years, he and his gallery, Tiwa Select, have shared a rented loft in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood—a
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Mona Matsuoka
Mona Matsuoka
The model and DJ Mona Matsuoka is wired to find beauty in adaptation. Born in Atlanta, she moved at age 10 to her mother’s native Japan and found herself dropped
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Sandra Winther
Sandra Winther
The Copenhagen-born director Sandra Winther has an adventurer’s spirit, at once fearless and sensitively in tune with the environment. She first came to New York as an exchange student, studying
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Julia Watson
Julia Watson
The landscape architect Julia Watson has one of those careers that’s not easily defined. She is an author, an activist, and an academic. She has installed plants for pollinating insects
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Caroline Ventura
Caroline Ventura
For the New York–based artist Caroline Ventura, the creative path is more improvisational than linear. After studying political science with a plan to pursue law, she found her way to
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Yara Flinn
Yara Flinn
Like most successful businesses, the fashion brand NOMIA found its footing through intuition and chance. Yara Flinn, then 23, was fresh off a job at the Fondazione Prada, with hopes
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Anita Jane Pathammavong
Anita Jane Pathammavong
The New York–based model and culinary creative Anita Jane Pathammavong exudes an offhand grace, as if framed by a shifting beam of light. Born in the Thai city of Nong
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Jordy Murray
Jordy Murray
Frenetic energy is a polarizing aspect of city living, but it suits Jordy Murray just fine. Growing up between the States and Australia, she used to visit an uncle who
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