Mahwish Syed is an award-winning fashion and interior designer, best-selling author, cancer survivor, and a proud mother. She has dressed bodies and houses for more than two decades. She designs beautiful environments that heal and nourish her clients, which have been featured in the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, and Hamptons Cottages & Gardens. Her best-selling book PURGATORY TO PARADISE describes her cancer journey, how she healed through design, and is available on Amazon and Audible.

Mahwish is passionate about how our environment affects our health and believes that designing your home can be both beautiful and healing.  She is known for her anthropological approach where she listens and observes her clients to fashion an environment that is unique, magical, and good for them!

Whether as a stylist for Atlantic Records or as a weaving apprentice in Morocco, or as a Mellon Intern at the Ratti Textile Center of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mahwish explored the crossroads where fashion, decorative arts, healing, and mythology intersect. Women’s Wear Daily described her as someone “who made an effort to continue the artistic traditions through her designs.” Her screen-printed and hand-dyed creations were featured in the New York Times, Wedding Day Magazine, City Magazine, and Time Out NY.  Her keen eye has brought about collaborations with the Aga Khan Foundation to create hand-carved jewelry in addition to her work in fashion and interiors.

She worked at an exclusive interior design firm for a decade where she collaborated with architects on every aspect of high-end residential and commercial spaces in Miami, the Hamptons, Connecticut, and Manhattan before starting her own firm.  Her interdisciplinary talents have won her the regard of clients, architects, and top brands and galleries.

Mahwish is an avid speaker and leads workshops on healing through design.