ou two should know each other. You have so much in common.” It was this typical friend’s refrain that set things in motion. Los Angeles gallerist Shulamit Nazarian first met designer Pamela Shamshiri at the suggestion of creative director Michael Reynolds. Reynolds’ instincts proved providential — Nazarian and Shamshiri did in fact have much in common. Both were independent women of Persian descent, born in Iran and transplanted to LA with their families in the wake of the Islamic Revolution. Both were divorced mothers raising sons. And both owned architecturally
