Born in Ghana, raised in South Africa, and now living in Brooklyn, New York, 54kibo founder Nana always loved the unique contemporary African design items she found on trips home. But she realized these designs were largely hard to access globally. Nana launched 54kibo in 2018 along with a team committed to sharing the endless creativity in Africa and its Diaspora.

New York based designer Hana Getachew started Bolé Road Textiles out of a desire to merge her love of Ethiopian handwoven fabrics with her career in interior design. During her eleven years at a major New York City architecture firm Hana realized her affinity for vibrant colors and graphic patterns was a direct result of her upbringing in a home filled with amazing traditional Ethiopian textiles. Her designs for Bolé Road are an homage to that cultural inheritance and a reflection of her own personal global modern aesthetic.

Gantri collaborates with leading creators from around the globe and harnesses digital manufacturing technologies to produce lighting designs made of plant polymers that combine beauty, functionality, sustainability, and affordability without compromise.

After founding the brand WANT Les Essentiels in 2007, brothers Byron and Dexter Peart set out on a new venture, GOODEE, dedicated to offering sustainable solutions for modern living. The pair decided to work exclusively with artisans and products that make a positive social or environmental impact. GOODEE curates products that bring together the values of good design, good people, and good purpose.

K’era is a Los Angeles-based mixed media painter who’s had a long term love affair with textile traditions from around the world. Having previously launched a photographic derived textile company with a fellow designer, K’era desired to return to the art of creating by hand without the aid of digital and hi-tech tools. Her current mixed media work is based in an intuitive art practice.

Born and raised in Paris, Marie draws inspiration for her lighting, furniture and decorative accessories from both French design and her family’s native home of Martinique. With a deep appreciation of mid-century modern furniture, Marie has taken the clean lines that defined the iconic designs of that movement and given them a luxurious new simplicity. Her use of Feng Shui, of which she is a certified master, always plays an important role in bringing a harmonious balance.

With an artisan approach and care about who, how, and where their products are made, Nomadory seeks the most ethical factories, focuses on their expertise, and foster deep personal relationships with makers from around the world to share the stories of where their products come from, creating transparency in the process.

When OneFortyThree founders Logan and Roxy initially began crafting handmade furniture and lighting for their own Nevada studio, interest grew from friends and family, and what was once a passion project became a business. Inspired by the desert and their love for industrial design, they still manufacture each piece by hand, remaining committed to craft and staying close to the process.

SIN meticulously hand-builds and crafts American-made home goods that make you feel good. In 2006, founder Virginia Sin left LA for Brooklyn to develop her first product line. Today, her plates are used at Eleven Madison Park, and her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Goop, and the New York Times. Working to continually broaden her design horizons, Virginia has focused her recent attention on redefining ceramic coils, translating her graphic designs into weave structures and challenging the limitations of clay in the lighting industry, in hopes to bring some extra warmth into the world.

Lani Adeoye's work in sculpture, lighting, and furniture blends the rhythmic warmth of her Nigerian heritage and echoes of time-honored craftsmanship with a futuristic approach. While her practice is multifaceted, it is consistently rooted in the ethos of connection, drawing individuals in on a deeper level, nurturing and celebrating shared human values.

Sun at Six is a family-run studio and factory with a commitment to maintaining classical Chinese joinery while producing contemporary forms. They design and make furniture in-house from FSC-certified raw timber, challenging Made in China stereotypes and celebrating the history of craft in their work.

Founded in 2017, TRNK is a design studio with and in-house product line and curated collection of inspired objects, spearheaded by their collection of American-made upholstered seating. Motivated by the ways that environments shape our interactions, memories, and experiences, we spend time with every piece to ensure our products strike an ideal balance between artistry and function.