Built by two friends inspired by Senegalese culture and the power of women, Tackussanu Senegal works with artisans to create ethically and naturally sourced woven baskets. With a variety of shapes, colors, and leather trims to choose from, each basket is unique and handmade.

Mitchell Black, founded by New York native Lynai Jones, offers an astounding 365 wallpaper patterns–each available in either a peel-and-stick or traditional printed format. Better yet, every sheet is made in the U.S. From soft, subtle blush tones to peacock-inspired watercolors and strong traditional plaids, there is truly a print for every taste.

A staple on a bustling block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Peace & Riot stocks its shelves with an abundance of home decor items across categories including furniture, skin-care products, design objects, and kitchen essentials. Owned by husband-and-wife team Achuziam Maha-Sanchez and Lionel Sanchez, the shop reflects their African and Caribbean upbringings with some midcentury and Scandinavian finds mixed in.

Charlotte-based collector and designer Ariene Bethea is the founder of Dressing Room Interiors—part vintage shop, part interior design studio. Bethea‘s knack for color, texture, and statement pieces will ensure a room that is truly one of a kind.

It is telling that Naj Austin named her co-working space for people of color, Ethel’s Club, after her grandmother. The warm, inviting space, designed by Shannon Maldonado of Hello Yowie, was created to foster and strengthen community as opposed to perpetuating the type of networking and professional ladder-climbing that dominates so many co-working spaces. The gift shop further enhances that mission with goods including tonics, aromatherapy, and ceramics designed by artisans of color.

If you live for the weirdest (in the best possible way) tchotchkes, the Lam Label is going to be your new best friend. The Louisiana-based vintage retailer curates the most incredible wares from hand-shaped toast holders to spicy pajama salt and pepper shakers.

Texas-born, Brooklyn-based Torrey Beckham is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is an expression of intersectionality–each piece is an examination of societal structures and lived experience. Whether a large-scale weaving or graphic illustration, expect intentional color, symbolism, and a critically applied eye.

Nasozi Kakembo’s brilliant use of mudcloth and batik is applied to pillows, wallpaper, furniture, and more with her Brooklyn-based brand, xN Studio. Follow her on Instagram for a masterclass in interior design, international travel, and great outfits.

Designer Julia Leigh Sergeon has a refined style that is refreshingly unfussy. In addition to running her interior firm, The Camp, she also makes custom furniture, accessories, and wallpaper in polished prints.

For all things pastel, shell, and Murano, Montreal-based Wildfang should be your go to. Led by Hana Nagel, a UX design researcher and advocate for diversity in tech design, her finds are available exclusively via Instagram.

Dawn Marie West had our best self-care interests in mind when she created La Botica. The luxury candle studio and concept/chill wear brand combines Dawn Marie’s experience in art direction and luxury perfumery with her Black and Afro-Dominican culture. The result gives us pure relaxation in an ultrachic style.

Though she only launched Denniston House back in April, Joilyn Jackson (who is also an artist based in D.C.) quickly built a following for the brand. It’s not hard to see why, looking at her selection of found and vintage home goods with a minimalist lean.

Shelley V. Worrell’s Brooklyn-based Caribbeing showcases talented artists and artisans from across the Caribbean in what she describes as an intersection of culture, community, and commerce. In addition to offering food tours of Flatbush and producing pop-up markets, Caribbeing curates a wide selection of decor items, tasty treats, and gifts.

Founder LaToya Tucciarone has an incredible eye for timeless home goods, from pottery to tableware and textiles. To top it off, her Atlanta-based brand is dedicated to “sustaining communities and the planet” using ethical and fair sourcing practices around the world for each item in her well-curated shop.

When textile industry veterans Gaura and Kamilah Tibbitts established Caravan Home Decor, great table linens were pretty much a guarantee. The brand also offers an impressive array of glassware, art, and home accents, all with an eye toward warm neutrals and a lived-in vibe.

Selling a delightful blend of new and vintage home goods, Mandana Blvd. is thoughtful curation at its finest. The shop is a labor of love—and a side hustle—for founders Cristina Ramos and Nu Goteh, who have an uncanny ability for spotting gorgeous earthen ceramics and timeless furniture finds.

Nana Quagraine’s dedication to designers of the African diaspora is encapsulated in each product 54kibo carries. Head to the site for a standout selection of lighting, furniture, and accents, including sustainably sourced textiles and handmade throw pillows.

Cleaning Supplies

Pur Home founder Angela Richardson turned a quest to make her own natural soap for personal use into a full-blown nontoxic cleaning brand. The products are cruelty-free, sustainably produced, and have some of the most beautiful packaging we’ve seen on the market.

All natural cleaning product lovers will appreciate the care that Tonya Newsome puts into her work, inspired by her own experiences with irritating chemicals and toxins. Her cleaners are available in five fragrances and packaged in recycled plastic.

Organic and all-natural everything is at the heart of Ashli Goudelock’s Honeydipped Essentials. Aside from cleaning products, she has also built a line of bath and skin-care goods that includes soaks, masks, and accessories.

Textiles

Hana Getachew’s company, Bolé Road Textiles, is a perfect combination of her upbringing in Ethiopia and her education in architecture and interior design. Hana’s love of Ethiopian handwoven fabrics and her own modern aesthetic come together in everything from bath mats to pillows to table linens.

Linen bedding, friend to hot sleepers everywhere, was a product ripe for disruption with its traditionally overpriced and plainly colored offerings. Linoto, founded by Jason Evege, provides high-quality linens—all made in New York—at competitive prices and in a variety of rich hues and patterns. Jason has also expanded on the category with dining linens, curtains, and boxer shorts, to name a few.

Ceramics

A true Renaissance woman, Malene Barnett is a ceramicist, textile artist, painter, activist, and founder of the Black Artists + Designers Guild. She’s also an interior designer with an enviably curated and colorful brownstone in her home base of Brooklyn.

Washington, D.C.–based artist Hadiya Williams applies her vision across several mediums, including graphic design, art direction, and ceramics. Her clay practice focuses on wearable art: jewelry in the form of earrings, necklaces, and rings.

A believer in functional design, Osa Atoe’s ceramics are as beautiful as they are useful. Using fine etchings, a soothing color palette, and a mixed glaze method, her work is meant to reflect “a multiculturalism and a human universality.”

Lalese Stamps, a ceramicist based in Columbus, Ohio, spent 2019 making one mug a day for 100 days. The result? A stunning portfolio of 100 matte black vessels, each with a silhouette more bold and graphic by the day.

The beauty in Brooklyn ceramicist Kyle Scott Lee’s work is not just in his skillful shaping, but in his hand-painted glaze work. Lee frequently draws inspiration from Japanese firing techniques and symbolism.

Carla Sealey’s Instagram bio reads: “A moment of still for a peaceful soul.” Her work certainly lives up to that ideal, with clean lines, minimal shapes, and intentional glazing.

Dina Nur Satti, the designer and maker behind Nur Ceramics, has a personal connection to her work as a way to reconnect with the indigenous culture of her homeland and the Somali and Sudanese traditions of her parents. Beyond making incredibly beautiful pieces, Dina works to provide a window into the artistic sophistication of cultures that are often overlooked.

Tony Williams uses a variety of techniques and materials—such as salt firing and Shino and Celadon glazes—to create a texture that is earthy and sophisticated all at once.

Sara Ekua Todd, the L.A. designer behind Ekua ceramics, has a delightful sense of color and proportion. Her chunky mugs have oversize handles that are packed with personality and her vases, dishware, and incense burners follow suit.

Melissa Chin’s stoneware mugs, dishes, and plates are handmade in Chicago and stem from her belief in art as a healing medium. Her minimalist style and focus on detail conjure serenity.

Jasmine Spitzer-Smith, a nonbinary artist based in the Bay Area, makes incredible stone pottery informed by their West African and Jamaican heritage. Their work uses intricate line work and bright, sun-kissed colors.

Tracie Hervy’s vessels are quiet poems. The New York–based ceramicist creates the purest form of each item she turns her eye on, whether it be an elegant low bowl or a milky porcelain tumbler.

NYC-based Camille Beckles makes charming wheel-thrown pottery from a distinctive speckled clay. Camille then hand-carves each piece to give an extra personal touch.

Ceramicist Isatu Hyde is one part of the design and craft studio and shop Studio Artificer. Highlighting makers who work with natural materials to make beautiful, useful things, the shop sells work from a variety of makers. Once you get to know Isatu’s work, you’ll be in love.

Phoebe Collings-James is an artist in every sense of the word. She writes, paints, sculpts, creates sound-based work, and, under the moniker Mud Belly, creates wheel-thrown pottery in muted tones.

Based in Atlanta, Aleisha Ellis hand-makes pottery she describes as minimal, natural, and tactile. We’re inclined to agree. From ergonomic ridges and oversize handles to her exclusively natural and matte black color palette, her work is useful but lovely to behold.

Furniture Design & Upholstery

Working from custom pieces for individual clients to full-scale collaborations with restaurants, hotels, and textile designers, Nicole Crowder’s upholstery career is thriving. The Washington, D.C.–based independent furniture designer and upholsterer takes inspiration in her designs through many aspects of life, from fashion to fresh fruit.

Dozie Kanu’s work makes us think of a modern-day Marcel Duchamp. With a focus on fusing materials into objects, the Houston-born design star (who’s now based in Portugal and New York City) creates pieces of furniture that are sculptural but also function.

Jomo Tariku is an Ethiopian American industrial designer and artist who specializes in modern furniture that incorporates a deep appreciation for African art and culture. With beautiful interpretations of classic designs, he’s able to create new forms infused with his heritage.

That Clayton Rhule trained as a sculptor should come as no surprise when observing his furniture. The clean lines, textural treatment of wood, and organic shapes give his pieces a sense of permanence and natural solidity.