Top Ten
We are SO excited to announce the 10 selected designers and makers taking part in our Winter 2022 Black Lives Matter Action Initiative (BLMAI), which seeks to foster a better, more representative home and gift market. Discover bright textiles, luxe scents, unexpected ceramics and more among the Black-owned brands featured below, representing some of the best new discoveries among the many facets of home and gift. Get to know them on Shoppe Online when the new season launches February 1, then join us in NYC February 5 – 7 to meet, greet, and shop their products in person!
Sade Baron
Sade Baron is created by a mother-daughter duo (Sade and Rachel) with one simple goal in mind: to create high-quality vegan body products packed with nutrient-rich superfoods that are good for both your skin and our planet. The skin’s amazing regenerative powers inspire every one of Sade Baron’s products, informed by Sade’s 35 years of experience creating and recommending skin solutions as a nurse and midwife.
Homa Studios
Founded by designer Altarik Banks, Homa Studios creates objects that propose new visions of the everyday. Homa melds craftsmanship, emerging technology, and uncompromising collaboration to explore the surprises and joys found within the home. As design principal, Banks designs forms with a deep interest in materials, sustainability, and fabrication processes – all of the designs are crafted in his native New Jersey using clay excavated from Toney’s Brook.
Iris 1956
Iris 1956 is a modern jewelry brand founded in 2017 by designer and metalsmith Candias. Inspired by her African heritage and her native New Orleans culture (and named after her mother), Iris 1956 offers jewelry to encourage self-love, tell a story of perseverance, and remind you who you are and where you come from. The brand uses ethically sourced metals and gemstones to create pieces that can be passed down as modern-day heirlooms.
Oya Abeo
Founded by Samiat Salami, Oya Abeo creates exquisitely designed products for the home by marrying centuries-old Nigerian artisanship with exclusive and playful designs. They journey around Nigeria to bring you the best materials and craftsmanship, from 100% Nigerian cotton fabric, grown in Funtua, Katsina, to elegantly drawn prints from artisans in Osogbo, to hand-woven fabric from Iseyin, where the artisans’ knowledge of weaving has been passed through generations.
Ardor Bin
Ardor Bin's plant-obsessed founder Latrice Littleton couldn't find home fragrances that met the natural standards she was looking for, so she created Ardor Bin with the hopes of elevating the plant-based marketplace while promoting conscious consumerism. Inspired by the redolent scents of nature, Ardor Bin's exquisite line of natural botanical home fragrances and personal care products are designed to add a touch of warmth and tranquility to any living space.
Apostrophe Puzzles
Apostrophe Puzzles was founded with the knowledge that the work created by artists of color is valuable, desirable, and profitable. They believe that art appreciation and consumerism is not only for the wealthy, and that we can all participate in a culture of accessible patronage. Their puzzles are created as a tool for mindfulness and self-care as well as a way for puzzle-doers to learn about and support contemporary artists of color.
Aaliyah Makoni
Made in Africa, Aaliyah Makoni is a brand born out of a passion to bring their unique bags and home goods to the world. Inspired by a love of prints and textiles, vivid colors, and unique patterns, they craft each affordable, limited-edition piece by hand. Their brightly patterned designs add just the right amount of color to any space or ensemble.
A Kids Company About
Back in 2018, founder, CEO, and dad Jelani Memory wrote a book titled “A Kids Book About Racism,” to make sure his kids knew that racism was always an open subject with him. A Kids Company About seeks to empower kids to talk about the important stuff in life—they have published over 50 books, to that end, on topics like Divorce, Optimism, Voting, Cancer, Shame, Racism, Gratitude, Empathy, and Being Non-Binary.
REISFIELDS NYC
Starting in Brooklyn, NY back in 2016, REISFIELDS NYC is a black and queer cultural and lifestyle design lab created to offer an artisan line of handcrafted and curated pieces for your home and personal enjoyment. Their 100% soy wax candles are all blended in small, clean-burning batches with fragrances and essential oils and hand-poured in their lab in New Jersey, creating a beautiful, sustainable product made in the USA.
House Dogge
House Dogge is a modern, sustainable lifestyle brand addressing the everyday essentials for dogs and their human family. These mindfully designed products include beautifully designed natural dog toys, sustainable textiles, and other fun, modern nontoxic products that support the lifestyle and shared household spaces of dogs and people. Our goal is for customers to feel good about what they take home to their loved ones – furbabies and human family, alike.
