Jess grew up visiting antique stores, vintage shops and flea markets with her parents in Los Angeles where she developed a love for beautiful pieces and an eye for rare treasures. She began collecting a menagerie of mementos and paraphernalia in her twenties as she lived abroad and traveled the world. She expanded not only her collection, but her acumen of quality made goods. She never had one go to style as she found that a partnership between beauty and function was rarely one dimensional.