Black Home Interior Designers

Notes on style and substance.

Black home interior designers. Be sure to follow the black interior designers network and the black artists designers guild founded by malene barnett. Aphrochic began in 2007 as the brainchild of husband and wife team jeanine hays and bryan mason and quickly expanded from an online blog to a firm that does a. He has one of the most prominent commercial interior design firms. Aphrochic a multifaceted design firm specializing in interior design product design fashion and publishing is dedicated to celebrating culture creativity design arts science and technology in the african american community with a focus on the intersection of modern design and global culture across diverse populations.

As today marks the end of the first week of black history month we re taking a moment to recognize black talent across the interior design industry. Bilhuber is the author of four books including jeffrey bilhuber s design basics defining luxury. Mcswain is a self taught designer based in denver who regularly uplifts the voices of up and coming black designers and helped officially establish the black interior designers network as a nonprofit. Reflections of american beauty and american master.

The bidn virtual masterclass is october 2 2020. As one of america s most widely recognized interior designers jeffrey bilhuber brings over thirty years of experience to his eclectic design schemes. Flipping through the kinds of glossy home decor magazines that take up residence in doctors offices and line the shelves at high end grocery stores you would think the world of interior design lacked black interior designers almost entirely. Being a black interior designer today in this time and space is phenomenal.

Any list of pioneering black designers would be remiss not to mention bridges whose colorful interiors like the blue kitchen above have been brightening homes and gracing the pages of shelter. For crisp clean modern designs jersey s discerning clientele head to j. Get your early bird ticket. Designer keia mcswain became the president of the black interior designers network in 2017 the year kimberly ward the founder of the organization and mcswain s friend and coworker passed away.

The only black interior designer i remember seeing back then was lou switzer of the switzer group. I became aware of other black. Patryce design the firm s founder and principal joan enger has been based in hoboken since 2005 has completed a wide range of interior design projects across north new jersey. The 10th annual black interior designers network conference has been postponed to july 2021.

The public s increased desire for diversified points of view within interior design has grown exponentially.