Hive Minded - The Palm Beaches Luxury Living & Lifestyles

29 Sep Hive Minded

Posted at 12:01h in Featured Story, Interior Design by Luxury Home Magazine The Palm Beaches

Beginning with her eponymous interior design company, McCann Design Group, Sara McCann has grown her Hive brand into a multi-functioning collective that includes all aspects of design, furniture, clothing, floral, kids and even the occasional croissant. All filtered through one defining lens and disseminated to a team that shares a belief in that singular vision, working in harmony to create unique looks start to stop, bottom to top. Almost like a hive mind.

Opened in 2013, Hive Home, Gift, and Garden was born out of a designer’s needs. “With so many of our interior design jobs at that time there was no place to go to for that last ten percent of the project, the finishing details and accessories,” Sara explains, “The Hive home store was born of that necessity.”

It truly is an all-in-one design stop and shop, with the added feature that anything purchased in the store can be delivered to the buyer that same day. Furniture, lighting, and accessories are curated and arranged in vignettes so people can get a vision of what it would look like in their own space. The entire selection of products for sale are vetted by Sara. In fact, the motto of the enterprise is “Sara wouldn’t put anything in the home store that she wouldn’t put in her own home.”

It only takes a brief glance to immediately see that the multitude of offerings share an aesthetic DNA. There are lots of whites and neutrals as well as the signature Hive green which pops up throughout the various rooms and buildings, from the playful circus tent green and white stripes in Hive for Kids, to the bakery where it partners with dark walnut and brass, to the giant tropical mural spanning the side of Hive Home.

Just down the street from the central hub on South Dixie Highway is the Hive Trade Showroom which also includes the Southeast Florida showroom for Hickory Chair. Inside are exclusive lines of customizable fabrics, wallcoverings, trim, furniture, lighting, and rugs – all hand-picked by Sara and her team. “The ocean and lush landscaping of our beautiful, tropical environment always influences our choices – especially with fabrics,” Sara informs.

“Sara wouldn’t put anything in the home store that she wouldn’t put in her own home.”

Speaking of new and exciting, Sara has already decided on Hive’s next trajectory, a space further down Dixie Highway south of Southern to be called Pure by Hive. Opening late fall, Pure will offer a more contemporary aesthetic, not quite modern but with updated, clean lines and new vendors targeting a younger demographic. “We’re noticing clients want a cleaner aesthetic,” Sara says, “they’re choosing more contemporary or transitional furniture.” And her advice for those Florida newcomers? “Don’t be afraid to start fresh with furniture choices and color palette.”

“Although we work primarily in Palm Beach, we are fortunate to have projects in Kennebunkport, Southampton, Lake Geneva, and Birmingham,” Sara announces. The Hive mind is expanding.