Welcome

I’m Kelsey Keith, a creative director by day and a writer/editor for life. After a dozen years in New York design media, I up and moved to the Bay Area where—among other things—I started this newsletter.

Ground Condition might be for you, if

• you agree that design is culture.

• you miss shelter magazines.

• you follow at least three archival interiors accounts on Instagram.

• “undercover architectural gem” is your favorite genre and you go out of your way to walk/bike/drive by it.

• you want to buy communal land and build your own Sea Ranch-style utopia.

• you appreciate everything from conversation pits to Shaker cabinets, brick to stainless steel.

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