An Editorial House
How we live
shapes
where we live.
Editor's Introduction
Edition 01 · Folio 01
And where we live shapes how we live.
Jungle House is an editorial house and living journal about the relationship between life and the spaces we make for it: art, objects, food, travel, hospitality, memory, and the rooms we make around the people we love.
What follows is arranged the way one might hang a small private collection: a painting, a philosophy, a quiet room, a portrait. Turn slowly.
Plate 01 · From the collection
Foyer · East wall
Becoming
Denver Dukes · Hand illustration · 2024
Imperfect, yet perfect to me.
Wall text
The philosophies of the house.
Five permanent principles. Small doctrines we return to, edition after edition.
- 01Lead From The Inside Out
- 02Leave Room To Become
- 03Design Choices Have Meaning
- 04Beauty Is Collected
- 05Our Spaces Are Ours To Define
Marginalia
Pay attention to ordinary life, in the quiet hours and in the most exciting moments. The room speaks to you. It tells you what it needs.
Statement
Life is the canvas.
We decide what to make of it.
Jungle House pays attention to what we gather, the sounds we hear, what we bring home, and what we carry forward.
Plate 02 · From the collection
Salon · South wall
Butterfly Woman
Denver Dukes · Hand illustration · 2023
Color, confidence, a little fantasy. She struts her ish and flutters joy through the house.
The Editor
Colophon · Signed, in this hand
An editorial house, by
Donnamarie Dukes
Founder · Creative Director · Editor
Donnamarie Dukes created Jungle House as a place to look closely at how we live and what we make around ourselves: rooms, tables, collections, rituals, and the things we carry forward.
Closing note
Nothing here is quite finished.
Leave room for life.
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New stories, conversations and additions to the house, sent occasionally.