The earth, edited.
Stone
as object,
not symbol.
Design-forward minerals, curated with a retail eye.
No metaphysics. No prescribed meaning. Just the object itself — chosen for how it holds light, occupies space, and earns its place in a room that already knows what it is.
Currently: Lemurian Quartz — High Desert Collection
The Collection
Stones selected to be lived with.
Each piece chosen the way a luxury retailer selects product — for placement, proportion, and presence. Not for what it means. For what it does to a room.
Statement Object
Himalayan Selenite
Pakistan highlands
$285
Specimen
Celestite Cluster
Madagascar
$165
Decorative Object
Rose Quartz Slab
Minas Gerais, Brazil
$210
Mineral Specimen
Golden Calcite
Chihuahua, Mexico
$320
Work With Me
Decades of aesthetic intelligence,
applied to stone.
Neiman Marcus. Saks Fifth Avenue. Louis Vuitton. We bring a discerning eye to how minerals are selected, placed, and presented — for spaces, brands, and people who care about what an object says in a space.
Site Consultation
The Space as
Retail Floor
A three-lens site visit — Aesthetic, Retail, Mineral — for wellness studios, boutique hotels, and high-design residential spaces. Cold Visit protocol included.
Inquire about consultation →Crystal Workshops
The Study.
The Gather.
The Sitting.
Three formats, one philosophy: instinct before knowledge. Small gatherings where stone selection happens by feel, and meaning is found — not assigned. Next: May 1st.
View upcoming workshops →Crystal Curation
Sourced for
your space.
Custom mineral sourcing for interiors, gifts, and brand environments. Statement, Experience, and Collection tiers available. Each piece chosen as an object first.
Begin a curation →Brand & Platform
Category
Intelligence
Strategic consultation for platforms and retailers entering the crystal category. Positioning, editorial voice, vendor relationships — from someone who has built it from inside.
Let's talk →Private Experiences
Modern Mineral
comes to your space.
Every private experience is designed around the occasion, the space, and the people in the room. The framework below is a starting point — not a fixed menu. Leanne collaborates closely with each host to make it exactly right.
Intimate
The Gathering.
2 — 6 guests
The most personal format. A close gathering of friends, a milestone birthday, or a quiet celebration designed around the act of choosing — stone by instinct, meaning by feel.
- Held at a private home, suite, or intimate venue of your choosing
- Individual stone selection experience for each guest
- A companion piece goes home with everyone
- Curated by Leanne, designed around your occasion
Celebratory
The Occasion.
6 — 15 guests
Designed for a group with a reason to gather. Bachelorette parties, birthdays, brand events, team offsites. Modern Mineral arrives at your venue and builds the experience around you.
- Full Material Field tactile station — Structure, Texture, Surface
- Communal mandala installation
- Stone selection experience with take-home companion piece
- Adaptable to any venue — hotel, studio, private space
Bespoke
The Salon.
Fully bespoke
For brands, wellness spaces, interior designers, retreat programmers, and anyone building something larger. Scope, format, and scale are built entirely around the collaboration.
- Corporate gifting and brand activations
- Retreat and wellness program integration
- Pop-up presence within existing events
- Co-branded experiences with partner venues
“Every experience begins with a conversation. Tell us what you're building and we'll design something that belongs there.”
Start the conversationFounder & Creative Director
Leanne
Winn.
The earth, edited. The eye, earned.
Some people study aesthetic intelligence. Leanne Winn spent three decades inside it — on the floors of Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Louis Vuitton, where the difference between an object that sells and one that stops a room is felt before it is understood.
Modern Mineral is what happens when that eye turns to stone. Not crystals as metaphor. Not minerals as wellness prop. Objects — chosen for weight, surface, light, and the particular silence a well-placed stone brings to a room that already knows what it is.
“I didn't study this. I learned it by standing in rooms where objects mattered — and paying attention to which ones made people pause.”
She works with wellness studios, boutique hotels, interior designers, and individuals who understand that what sits on a surface is never incidental. She writes about it. She teaches it. And she sources, one piece at a time, for people who want to get it exactly right.
Field Notes
Curated, collaborated, believed in.
The other 40%: brands, makers, and spaces I genuinely love. Not sponsored. Not obligatory. Things worth knowing about — and the context that makes them matter.
Aesop
Reverence Aromatique Hand Wash
“The bottle alone earns its place on any stone shelf. What's inside is beside the point — though it's also extraordinary.”
CB2
Travertine Object Tray
“Natural stone at an accessible price point — and it doesn't pretend to be something it isn't.”
Anthropologie
Amethyst Bookend Set
“Proof that mass retail occasionally gets it exactly right. The scale is the thing.”
Revival Wellness Studio — Medfield, MA
When the space becomes the collection.
Marissa opened Revival with intention — a wellness studio that understood the room itself is part of the offering. Modern Mineral came in as a Site Consultation and left as a permanent presence: a three-tier stone program threading through the space with the precision of a visual merchandiser and the restraint of an editor.
Statement pieces. Experience pieces. Collection pieces. Each chosen for where the eye rests, how the light moves, what a client reaches for on their way out.
Read the Full StoryWellness Space
Revival Wellness Studio
Medfield, MA. A studio built with rare intentionality — where the environment is as considered as the practice.
Design & Home
CB2
Mass-market restraint done well. The travertine and marble objects quietly earn their place.
Sensory + Ritual
Aesop
The gold standard of object-as-product. Packaging that justifies the price. Fragrance that earns the shelf.
Platform
Palmstreet
Where Modern Mineral's collection lives and moves. Live sourcing, real conversation, no algorithm between us.
Editorial
Botanica Lifestyle
The premium botanical publication where Modern Mineral contributes Crystal Corner. Launching Q1 2027.
Collaboration
The Faerest Realm
Co-creators of the Mineral Resonance Experience. The Material Field — Structure, Texture, Surface — lives here.
Intellectual Influence
Pauline Brown
Aesthetic Intelligence. Former LVMH. Her framework clarified what I had been practicing for thirty years without the vocabulary.
Reading
Minding the Store
Stanley Marcus. Retail as relationship. Taste as discipline. The book that named something I learned by doing.
The Essays
Writing from inside the work.
A Substack series about stone, sensory intelligence, hesitation, and the long education of becoming someone with a point of view.
Free to read — subscribe to get each essay in your inbox.
The Hesitation.
The moment before the stone is yours. The pause that holds something — reluctance, recognition, the strange intimacy of choosing.
Some Espouse. Others Do.
On aesthetic intelligence as something lived rather than theorized — drawn from three decades on luxury retail floors.
In My Defense, It Looked Like a Diamond.
The origin story. How a stone became a practice, and a practice became a brand.
The Stone That Chose You.
On Winnicott, transitional objects, and why we reach for certain stones without knowing why.
Upcoming Workshop
The Sitting.
May 1st.
Under 10 guests · By selection
Instinct before knowledge. You choose the stone. The price is revealed after. A small gathering built around a marble canoe bowl, a communal mandala, and a companion piece that is already waiting for you.
May
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