Jessica Hall Grace

At this turning point it is appropriate to take a moment and look at what happened to get here as this started over thirty years ago. I started Jessica Hall Associates, having little or no idea that this profession would enthrall me for the better part of my lifetime. It was and continues to be a adventure both visually, intellectually and spiritually. I can't really think of any other way of life that could so keep me in the present so completely as architectural and interior design has been able to do. The job circles around abstract imagination and the confines of rules regulations or ones clients boundaries. A balancing act between form and function, passion and equilibrium, fun and caution, needs and the sublime, and I could go on and on because creating environments, whether it is from the ground up or from the floor up requires tons of level headedness without losing the spark of adventure. So that is what my business has been about from the inside out for these many years. Yes, I went to school, Lynchburg College and then UC Berkeley and then by sheer coincidence met three or four people that recognized some potential in me and moved me on my way to having a life long career in design. Beverely Thom, Joyce Yokomizo, Patrick McGrew, Marsha Karr all people, experts in their fields who fostered the creative sprit in me.