On my desk : Georgia Cassimatis

White and rose hold the key

When I come home from the outside world I love walking into my ‘sanctuary’. As a freelance journalist and emerging producer (yes, that’s what they call it), I’m always on the go – interviewing and exploring story concepts, ideas and lives. So my home is designed to feel peaceful and ‘away from it all’.

I naturally gravitated to white backdrops with a splash of colour and minimal design because it felt like a big contrast to the outside world: my peace of ‘heaven’.

On my desk I have a bronze key with a red ribbon, a vase with always-pink flowers and a bowl of crystals. When I went to a Kinesiologist, she had chunks of crystals in vases around her house and I loved it. Coincidentally, my mum was moving and wanted to offload a lot of her crystals she collected over the years. So I filled my own bowl with Rose Quartz, Amethyst and White Crystal and it sits beneath the glass top.

Crystals soothe tension and keep the energy in the room loving and kind. They bring spiritual clarity and are guides to universal understanding and knowledge. Other than that they are an underestimated, powerful and beautiful design idea.

The key was given to me by a stranger I met in Los Angeles when I was on my way home to Australia. Having lived there for 9 years, I was very sad to leave, but I also knew I had to leave to begin the next life chapter, literally. I was on the verge of opening another door in life: I wanted to write a book about my life and experiences in LA and found it was time to go back home to do that. She pulled this key out of her bag and said ‘I bought this for me, but I think it’s meant for you…the door to your new life’. I came back and wrote my book and ended up getting published. This key sits on my desk as a sign of being grateful, present, powerful and that your dreams are out there … you only have to open the door.

Georgia is an author and journalist. She began her career as a contributing writer on Cosmopolitan magazine and shortly after was appointed the editor of tween magazine Barbie. In the midst of interviewing teen idols and organizing fashion shoots she was lured to Los Angeles where she spent the next eight years working as an entertainment, travel, lifestyle, health and well-being writer for media outlets worldwide. Her first book Red Carpet Burns (Harlequin) is her memoir about Los Angeles. Follow her @GeorgiaCassi