It’s been a busy 10 years for Brooks William. After transferring from Princeton to Parsons The New Faculty to review design and administration, he went on to work for a lot of luminaries within the interiors world, together with Kelly Wearstler and Michael Smith in LA, Robert Couturier in NYC, and Steven Volpe in SF.
Throughout that point, Brooks’s dad and mom relocated from Lexington, Kentucky, the place he grew up, to Columbus, Ohio. In Columbus, Brooks noticed an out there street-front house in a Nineteen Twenties constructing on the nook of Homosexual and Excessive Streets, “the epicenter of downtown,” and noticed a possibility to take his subsequent step. “Opening a retailer has all the time been a dream of mine,” he tells us, “championing artists and issues made by hand is on the coronary heart of what I do.”
Brooks, who’s 31, additionally discovered a enterprise associate: his mom, Lisa Barger, previously ran her personal insurance coverage brokerage and earlier than that did house staging. She was all in. Artisans &, their newly opened emporium, presents their favourite high-style, handmade house equipment, from classic Nantucket baskets to a Brooklyn buddy’s spatterware, every accompanied by an origin story. Keep tuned for the web store; higher but, cease in and permit Brooks and Lisa that can assist you discover what you’re in search of.
Images courtesy of Artisans & (@artisans_and).
The products on provide embody David Mellor cutlery and tableware from the UK—”because the Fifties, they’ve been creating finely crafted objects meant for on a regular basis use fairly than simply ornament,” notes Brooks. The number-shaped beeswax birthday candles are by Waxing Moon, a one-woman atelier in Missoula, Montana. The ladder shows block-printed tablecloths from Studio Ford of Los Angeles.
