Ariel Ashe is my sister-in-law, and to those who have accused me of marrying my wife only for access to Ashe and Leandro’s design skills—you would have done it, too! Don’t judge me!
The truth is, I knew Ariel first. She had been an intern in the set-design department at Saturday Night Live the year before I started. We became friends, and early on I leaned on her for help appointing my living quarters. This was incredibly kind of her as my apartment back in those days was, to use an architectural term, a “shitbox.”
