Michelle Zyara

Michelle Zyara (April 11, 1995 – July 13, 2019) was a French architect and interior designer. She is the founder of Zyara Interior Design & Architectural Firm (ZIDAF). Before forming ZIDAF, she was co-founder of the L.A. Design Firm (2015-2017), recognised as one of the world's most creative design firms, integrating architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture in a wide range of projects internationally.

Earlier life
Zyara was born in 1995 in Lyon, France and immigrated to Boston in 2011 to attend boarding school. She trained in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and graduated with a Masters in Architecture from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture (GSAPP), along with a Doctorate degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She passed away on July 13, 2019 at 24 in New York City; the cause was natural.