About

Annabel St. John

Founder & Creative Director, QUEEN & GRACE, PaperQueen & The PALOMA Method

Annabel St. John has always believed that a well lived life is in the details.

An entrepreneur, designer and lifelong creative, Annabel is the founder of QUEEN & GRACE, PaperQueen and The PALOMA Method, three brands that reflect the things she loves most: beautiful design, personal style, thoughtful details and making life work better.

After more than three decades in fashion and retail, Annabel has evolved QUEEN & GRACE into a lifestyle brand focused on fewer, better things: beautiful accessories, cashmere, jewelry and pieces chosen to be worn, loved and kept. PaperQueen reflects her lifelong love of paper, illustration, entertaining and the increasingly rare pleasure of putting pen to paper.

Her newest venture, The PALOMA Method, grew from something much more personal: the realization that most of us know how to run our lives, but very few of us have documented how they actually work. PALOMA is a life management system designed to organize the important details, documents, accounts, responsibilities and instructions that keep a life running, creating greater clarity and control for ourselves and for the people who may one day need to step in.

Together, her work has become less about simply selling things and more about sharing a point of view on living well: what we wear, how we entertain, how we travel, how we stay organized, what we surround ourselves with and how we continue to evolve through every chapter.

Annabel believes getting older should make life bigger, not smaller. She is endlessly curious, highly organized, usually working on a new idea and almost always moving quickly.

When she's not creating something, you'll find her golfing, working out, travelling, entertaining, walking at a very fast pace, celebrating life with friends and trying to spend quality time with her husband and their four grown children.

Less stuff. Better things. A beautifully organized life.