Cecilia was born in Sweden, in a family of nuclear physicists and hereditary steel magnates. She married a French financier and lived for many years on the Cote d'Azur. Before marriage, she managed to get a specialty as an interior designer, in the interval between having children — work as deputy Zaha Hadid, create a sensational lighting installation for SWAROVSKI and earn a reputation as a gifted decorator. For obvious reasons (where is everything to be in time!), Hands did not reach her for landscape design for a long time. “The little that I managed to do,” she says, “is to build our garden around a seaside house. I liked this activity very much then, but I don’t have enough time for everything at once. I remembered my skills when I was ordered this project — a loft in New York, on the top floor of a high-rise building, with a large open terrace. It was here that I decided to practice. For a debutante, I think, it was very tolerable. ”

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