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Ashleigh McKenzie
Founder · Empyrean Roots
Ashleigh McKenzie is the founder of Empyrean Roots and a collage artist. Born and raised in Boston, she spent more than twenty years designing homes, stores, hotels, and cruise ships before building ER to put makers’ names back on the work. She’s researching the history of American architecture and design.
Jerome Byron
Furniture · Objects & Architecture
Architect, furniture designer, and founding partner of LA-based Office of BC. Concrete, steel, charred wood, Kevlar: Jerome Byron lets the materials do the talking, across built work, custom interiors, and one-of-a-kind furniture shown by Carpenters Workshop Gallery and made commercially with CB2.
Keisha Jordan
Pattern & Textiles
Founder of Complex Flavors Home + Life, Keisha Jordan designs wallpaper, textiles, and décor for how a space makes you feel. Her “urban opulence,” where grit meets grandeur, has covered walls for Issa Rae and the Dungeon Family, and she designs with neurodivergent people in mind.
Carmeon Hamilton
Interiors & Rugs
Memphis-based designer, CEO of Nubi Interiors, and winner of HGTV’s Design Star: Next Gen. Carmeon Hamilton makes beauty accessible, from rental makeovers to her Rugs USA collection of bold pattern and rich color at prices real people can shop. Her motto: love the way you live.
Justina Blakeney
Pattern, Objects & Interiors
Designer, artist, New York Times bestselling author, and founder of Jungalow, the blog that became a movement. Justina Blakeney made color, pattern, and culture impossible to ignore, with wallpaper, textiles, and décor built on one belief: your home should look, and feel, like you.
Sandra Githinji
Furniture, Objects & Interiors
Kenyan-Australian designer, curator, and educator leading an award-winning Melbourne studio. Sandra Githinji asks what home owes us. She traces Pan-African tradition through sculptural objects, including her CB2 collection with the Black in Design Collective, and researches home as a living practice as a PhD candidate at RMIT.
Stephen Burks
Furniture & Product Design
Brooklyn-based industrial designer and founder of Stephen Burks Man Made. Burks works hand in hand with artisans across Africa, Asia, and South America, bringing woven, handmade technique to brands like DEDON. In 2015 he became the first African American to win a National Design Award for product design.
Sheila Bridges
Interiors & Pattern
New York interior designer known for bold color and for Harlem Toile de Jouy, the 2006 pattern that puts Black life into the scenes of classic French toile. Her work is in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt, the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Marcus Samuelsson
Food · Furniture & Objects
Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef behind Red Rooster Harlem. His collection with West Elm brings that same warmth home, with furniture, lighting and objects made for gathering around the table. Behind it all are his restaurants, from Harlem to Bermuda to London, and his James Beard Award-winning cookbooks and his bestselling memoir, Yes, Chef.
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