Artist in Residence | Raffaella Grisa

Rituals of Presence

This month's Artist in Residence is Italian artisan Raffaella Grisa, founder of WA:IT Botanicamente.
Raffi was born into a family of travelers, both east and west. With a profound connection to and reverence for the natural world and human well-being, she has an immense appreciation for rituals of presence and its quiet sense of harmony. A personal search for balance between achievement and presence, ambition and authenticity, doing and being, and the lessons gathered along the way, she created a new path. One that united her love for nature, fascination with traditional wisdom, belief in mindful living.
That desire to create something meaningful in service of others became WA:IT Botanicamente.

Raffaella Grisa, founder of WA:IT Botanicamente and October's Artist in Residence at Bella Cucina in Atlanta

An Invitation to Pause

In a world that constantly asks us to do more, move faster, and consume endlessly, WA:IT invites us to pause. To breathe. To return to the present moment and rediscover the wisdom that already exists within us. It's an invitation to slow down, to savor the simple luxuries in life. It's a philosophy where true beauty is not something we acquire.
It is something we remember.

Discover the WA:IT Collection

Olfactory rituals for the home and the body: incense, fragrance, candlelight, and care.

Come Meet the Maker

To experience the WA:IT Botanicamente collection and an interactive sensory work of art, meet Raffi at the Store x Studio on Saturday, October 3rd, 11am to 3pm.
Free and open to all. Come as you are.

Stay Awhile

Read the October Journal

Autumn, from the earth to the table.

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This Month's Objects of Affection

The pieces we chose for October.

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