Emiko Davies was raised in an international household with a Japanese mother and an Australian father, and spent her childhood and adolescence between Australia and China. So it was inevitable that she found herself halfway around the world later in life, to the US for a Fine Art degree that then let her to Florence, Italy, as a twenty-year-old. She fell in love with Florence instantly and returned a few years later to study art restoration and photography for a year and soak in the Florentine lifestyle (learning Italian along the way). But then she met her sommelier husband Marco, and that year turned into sixteen (and counting). They live in Florence with their two daughters.