Name: Patricia Strensrud
Expertise: Building great brands and entrepreneurial enterprises
Location:  New York City

Interests: Opera, cooking, travel.

Background: A born-and-bred marketer/merchant as well as opera singer and pianist.

Why did you curate this particular product and what do you love about it? I just love great design and Sheree's creative twist on adapting signature Japanese design elements to infant and childrenswear is brilliant and functional.

Favorite meal: Italian anything.

Recent purchase: Antique monogrammed table linens—a set of 18 matching dinner napkins.

Hidden talent: Landscape design.

Book/film recommendation: Film: Pray The Devil Back to Hell. Book: The Hawk and the Dove.

Restaurant recommendation: L’Hotel de Beaune Café in France.

If I had $20, I’d…: Get an orchestra seat to the Metropolitan Opera for their on-call tickets.

Transformative travel experience: Rajasthan, India.

Favorite neighborhood: Cap Ferrat.

Dream holiday: Greece/Turkey/Cairo/Morocco all in one.

If I could solve one problem, it would be: Delivery of so much wasted food and water in the U.S. to communities at home and nations around the world that are starving.

I wish people cared more about: The benefits of educating and training young women to be self-reliant in order to become social and economic providers.

Recent big aha!: The significance of “terroir” in micro-vineyards producing some of the world's best wines.
 
The world would be a better place if: We wasted less energy on selling and consuming plastic bottled water in the USA, which has excellent drinking water from the tap!