Sylvie Bass

Staff Writer

Sylvie handles outdoor furniture, storage, and organization picks across HomePiece Guide. She is the team's resident researcher, known for digging through thousands of customer reviews to find the products people genuinely love a year after buying them — not the ones with the loudest launch reviews. Her background is in retail merchandising for a national home goods chain, which gave her an early lesson in how often a glossy product photo hides a brittle frame or a fabric that pills in three months. Off the clock, she is rearranging her apartment for the third time this month and somehow always finds a new way to make a 600-square-foot studio feel bigger.