Evie and Patty in their breakfast nook

Michelle Marks

Michelle began her career at Skidmore Owings and Merrill, one of the world's leading architecture firms in technically and environmentally advanced design, where she collaborated on projects by renowned Mexican Architect Ricardo Legorreta, creating interiors and designing custom furniture, carpets, fabrics, casework, and lighting. After SOM Michelle moved on to developing her own clientele, working primarily on high-end residential projects and not looking back. 

Always looking for inspiration, Michelle has travelled extensively throughout the world. Whether creating a nightclub/cafe/art gallery in an old fish cannery outside of Rotterdam, cruising up the Yangtze River in a dilapidated cruise ship witnessing the last days of pre-boom China, or dragging her rollies through the Patagonian’ Torres Del Paine National Park looking for a barn to sleep in, Michelle treasures adventure and serendipity.

A California native, Michelle grew up in a household that was both artistic and intellectually inspired.  The daughter of a fine artist and an aerospace engineer, Michelle was surrounded by the love of art, design, and intellectual inquiry. This foundation, coupled with a life of artistic exploration, world travel, and living abroad, brings Michelle to whom she is today: a designer whose work is elegant, warm, and informed, flowing effortlessly through different styles and aesthetics. While Michelle finds her roots in mid-century design, she also brings influences from her interest in architectural history, classical sculpture and painting, and her travels to imbue each project with an original, evolving spirit.

Michelle graduated with honors from California State University, Long Beach Department of Design and a BFA in Architectural Interiors.

Diana Kunce

Diana has a wide range of career experience; trained as a conceptual artist, she started in the film business working first as a producer and then as a production designer and set decorator. Because her fearless excellence, directors asked her to design their own homes and she found a greater joy realizing the livable spaces for real people, rather than the creating the facade for fictional ones. She partnered with Michelle Marks to form WWFF Design where she prides herself in maintaining close relationships and trust, often working for the same client over multiple projects spanning many years.

Diana’s received her MFA from Stanford University. Her artwork is in several notable art collections including The Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

As a production designer and set decorator, she worked for many years with Donald Graham Burt, the Oscar winning production designer for David Fincher. Her credits include feature films such as The Joy Luck Club, The Center of the World and Being John Malkovich. Her film work has won numerous awards, including Cannes Film Festival Golden Lion award and Adweek’s iconic Commercial of the Decade: Aaron Burr’s Got Milk.

With a personal focus on promoting arts education, Diana founded a national award-winning youth theatre program for the Culver City School District. Knowing that environment is a key elements to building community, she spear-headed the sixteen-million dollar renovation of the historic Frost Auditorium, hand-picking architects Hodgetts & Fung.

In her free time, she produces independent film projects such as It’s Not About Jimmy Keene, an official selection of the Indie Episodic program for Sundance 2019 and Eve, a film by Susan Bay Nimoy, official selection, Sundance in 2018.

WWFF Design

WWFF Design is a Los Angeles-based interior design studio, specializing in bespoke, modernist residential interiors. Formed as a collaboration to create spaces that reflect the character of their inhabitants, they celebrate the way each client uses the space they call home. Every project is customized to their individual lifestyle as well as the parameters of the space available.

Their work includes renovations of major architectural gems such as the John Lautner Echo Park Studio and the Allyn Morris studio in Silverlake.

Understanding that great design is a means to provide a true sense of Home, Partners Michelle Marks and Diana Kunce focus on the unique needs of each client. Working with local and international artisans, close access to the fine arts community and creating heirloom-quality custom furniture while promoting sustainable materials all combine to underline their design mission. Both painters and sculptors, the partners’ sense of color and shape motivate their creative decisions allowing for aesthetic freedom that emerges from form and function over a specified or predetermined style.

Michelle and Diana form a collaborative partnership that delivers a curated, disciplined and inspired eye to every detail.