Behind the cash register at Monk Estate hangs a black-and-white photograph of Lazuli Whitt’s mother, Barbara. The image was taken by her father, Michael, in the early ‘60s, and it shows Barbara dressed in a headscarf and Ray Bans, carrying a bamboo-handled bag as she shops in the south of France. 

“Her style was classic and simple,” Lazuli said. “It always had a flare, there was an ease about it. Never pretentious.”

Barbara died…