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02138 is Cambridge Massachusetts, just across the river from downtown Boston and known broadly as “the most opinionated zip code in America”.  Home of Harvard and MIT, where facebook was founded, where George Washington camped his troops, home of Nobel prize winners and poet laureates. We are surrounded by history, academia and intellectualism, but style…not so much.

For most of 02138, style is considered a whimsy that contradicts the Cambridge obsession with intellectual substance.  Style is misinterpreted and underappreciated. Style reflects the value systems and cultures of eras and people. It is the imagery that expresses with the left brain that intellectualism of the right brain that Cambridge is so obsessed with. 

Great style is timeless and grounded in something far more embedded in who and what we are than the fleeting wisps of fashion. Don’t get me wrong. I love fashion and nothing is more exhilarating than a gorgeous pair of pumps.  But I have found that despite the appearance of an inherent contradiction in the Style 02138 name, Style and 02138 potentially share a common bond.

Style 02138 is the marriage of this highly opinionated zip code and our perspective on what makes great style, in the home and in life.  Style 02138 will bring you our thoughts on great style outside of 02138 and surprising elements of style in 02138, a behind the scenes perspective on the interior design industry and projects and insight on great new products for the design afficianado.  The strong voice you would expect from 02138 with the stylish flare that might surprise you.