Spring cleaning season is just around the corner! If you’re itching for an at-home refresh like we are, keep these black-owned businesses in mind for all of your décor, closet and culinary needs.
Modular by Mensah
Founded by British-born Ghanaian designer Kusheda Mensah, Modular by Mensah is dedicated to exploring how one can create an idyllic, yet fun and functional living environment. The result is a catalog of oversized, whimsical interlocking modular pieces.
Roberto Lugo
A Philadelphia native, Roberto Lugo utilizes classical pottery forms in conjunction with portraiture and surface design to highlight themes of poverty, inequality, and racial injustice. His hand-painted works bring a “21st-century street sensibility” to traditional European and Asian ceramic techniques.
Ini Archibong
Working with a variety of materials including glass, marble and leather, Ini Archibong’s furniture designs are informed by the inherent properties unique to each materials. His work draws from architecture, environmental and product design, as well as lifelong passions for mathematics, philosophy and world religions.
Vela Negra
Aisha Cort is the creative mind behind these sleek black wax candles. Featuring fragrances inspired by Cort’s Afro-Cuban and Guyanese heritage, each candle is individually hand-poured using 100% vegan coconut soy wax and ethically sourced wooden wicks, fragrance and dye.
Khiry
An Afrofuturist brand founded by Jameel Mohammed on the basis of subverting the conventions of “luxury”, Khiry is defined by sleek forms that evoke themes through the African diaspora.
Forbes + Masters
Monet Masters and Tavia Forbes, founders of the Atlanta-based interior design firm Forbes + Masters, have collaborated with Mitchell Black on a series of modern and highly-textural wallcoverings.
Woody De Othello
Woody De Othello is a ceramicist and painter living and working in the Bay Area. His surrealist clay sculptures depict anthropomorphized household objects and body parts that appear to twist around themselves and slump over, as if overcome by gravity.
Estelle Colored Glass
Founded by Stephanie Summerson Hall (and named for her grandmother), Estelle Colored Glass is a luxury brand of hand-blown and specialty-made colored glass cake stands and stemware in a mix of jewel tones and soft pastels.
Blondery
A sweet treat to round out this list, Blondery is a direct-to-consumer virtual bakery founded by Auzerais Bellamy, a professional pastry chef and lifelong advocate for women and people of color. Blondery’s distinctive collection of blondies includes four core flavors with rotating seasonal flavors that solves the essential question of what to give when you want a unique and delicious gift for yourself or others any time of year.
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