Jenny Francis is an architect and designer, principal of the Toronto-based studio JENNY FRANCIS DESIGN. Jenny has lived and worked in New York, London, Helsinki, Rome, and now Toronto, designing award-winning projects for visionary clients. Recent clients include Hotel Le Germain, the Thompson Hotel, the Drake Hotel, Munich RE, Eckler Ltd, the Door Studio + Swiss company Stobag for IDS 2012, and the owners of special residential and leisure properties. Her approach to design values thoughtful simplicity, pleasure and craftsmanship. Jenny believes that architecture and design enable nuanced and meaningful connections to the ways that we aspire to live, and so the influences of our passions become important for every project. She strives with each project to engage its context, and to create beautiful modernist spaces that resonate and inspire.