Inside Source

From luxury hotels in D.C. to iconic restaurants in Jackson, designer and entrepreneur Mary Sanders Cavicchi shares how storytelling shapes every space she touches. In this conversation, she opens up about balancing beauty and functionality, preserving community institutions like Hall & Mal’s, and why she believes design should reflect personal and local identity. With candid reflections on challenges, lessons learned, and the joy of creating spaces that transport people, Mary reveals what it takes to build not just rooms, but stories worth living in.