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All Eyes on The Voice Collection Created by Six Black Interior Designers

Design Milk

Williams, Carmeon Hamilton, and Don Ricardo Massenburg are six powerhouse Black interior designers who are gaining some much deserved recognition. TOV Furniture has launched The Voice Collection to push back at the lack of visibility of the Black design community and industry with the 20+ piece series. Ava Bed by Erika Ward.

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F5: Kevin Dumais Shares His Fashion Staples, Sunday Pastime + More

Design Milk

It wasn’t long after interior designer Kevin Dumais started working on his own that he knew the profession was his true calling. “It was the end of a project installation, the construction was over, and our clients walked in and saw their new apartment completely furnished for the first time.

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2021 Year in Review: Where I Work

Design Milk

Holger Graf and Daniel Lantz founded Graf Lantz in Los Angeles in 2009, taking inspiration from Holger’s German heritage and Daniel’s passion for Japanese aesthetics. June landed us in their Silver Lake studio as Daniel Lantz showed us around to see how and where their designs come to life. Where I Work: Ryan Saghian.

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Very Good and Proper Turns Hemp Fiber + Recycled Plastic Into Outdoor Chairs

Design Milk

Today, their signature pieces still include the Canteen Table, the Hook & Knob, and the Utility Chair, all launched at the London Design Festival in 2009.

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F5: Alicia Cheung Lichtenstein’s Love of Fashion Informs Her Work in Interiors

Design Milk

In 2009, she met her current business partner and co-owner of Studio Heimat, Eva Bradley, while working for tastemaker and influential designer Ken Fulk Inc. The two bonded over a mutual desire to create beauty through design and curation, then in 2015 made the big leap and opened their own firm.

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Xenobia Bailey Envisions a Distinctly African American Aesthetic One Crochet Stitch at a Time

Colossal

“Sistah Paradise’s Great Walls of Fire Revival Tent” (1993/1999/2009), hand-crocheted cotton and acrylic yarns, metal frame, electrical tape, and cowry shells, 144 x 60 x 60 inches. 2009), hand-crocheted cotton and acrylic yarns and plastic pony beads, 72 x 64 inches.

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First look: Inside the Design Museum’s electronic music blockbuster

Design Week

The most familiar design is likely the work The Haçienda. The Manchester club, set up in 1982, with interiors designed by Ben Kelly gets its due at the exhibition, with a note on the industrial interior design cues as well as the name’s idiosyncratic typography.