India Mahdavi is a true jetsetter. Born in Tehran, she spent a peripatetic childhood traveling between Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York, Heidelberg, Venice, and Paris, the latter being where she earned her architecture degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, before also studying at Parsons, SVA, and the Cooper Union. She returned to Paris to be Christian Liagre’s studio director, then established her namesake atelier there in 1999, designing hospitality and residential…
