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The Art of Living Well—in France and everywhere worth knowing.

Maggie Spicer helps a discerning few live, buy, and travel well. Rooted on the French coast. At home in Mexico City, Copenhagen, Kyoto, San Francisco.

I've spent my life at the intersection of food, design, venture and hospitality — creating experiences for the brands people admire, and living the one I now help others find. I moved to France, made it home, and came to know it the way you only can from the inside.

What I offer isn't a menu of services. It's an eye you can trust — so that wherever you're going, you never have to figure it out alone.

Move to France

For those ready to make France home. Firsthand guidance through the part most people can't navigate alone — because I've lived it.

Buy in France

Savoir Faire—by invitation

For those ready to root. Finding and securing the house—in the places actually worth living.

The private resource for experiencing the world at its best. The table that’s unsearchable by Google or ChatGPT. The house before it's on the market. The door that opens because it's us asking.

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Experiments

Currently developing:

  • an adaptogenic RTD beverage

  • a stealth hospitality project in Europe

Reach out if you’d like to collaborate!

Bio

Maggie is in the business of feelings. Inspired by connection, the elements of surprise and delight are paramount. She especially geeks out on experience-driven packaging and consumer brand experiences being ‘on-brand’.

She’s a contributor to hospitality + culture publications, such as Drift, Ambrosia, and EdibleSF. In the archives: The Bold Italic, and Women 2.0. Her work has been published in Workplace Wellness that Works: 10 Steps to Infuse Well-Being & Vitality into Any Organization and Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love. She was also a recent guest on Superb’s ‘The Recipe’ Podcast: Why restaurant bathrooms should never be bog-standard and La Marzocco France’s ‘Out of the Box: Paris’ panel on the topic of hospitality design.

Maggie holds a BS in Cultural Anthropology and Business with honors from Santa Clara University where she was a Jean Donovan Fellow. Maggie is a Goldman Sachs 10KSB Fellow, and most recently served for 5 years on the Board of 18Reasons, a member of the Bi-Rite Market family.

You may find her at a farmers market procuring produce or extending an invitation to share an early morning cold plunge in the ocean, followed by a warm thermos of ceremonial matcha.

Photograph courtesy Evan Sung

Write a message below or reach her on Instagram or LinkedIn. She also enjoys speaking—reach out if you have an upcoming panel or event.

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