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The home of furniture, decor, art and artisanship, celebrating the beauty of the African Diaspora. https://www.aphrochic.com/

02/07/2025

Black Canadian artist Mark Chandon was born in Calgary in the province of Alberta. After graduating from college, where he studied physics, Mark found relaxation in painting. While maintaining his career as a physicist, Mark continues to create striking contemporary landscape paintings that explore tranquil rural settings. We are thrilled to have exclusive framed prints of his work available at AphroChic Home - a respite for the eye and soul. Explore at the link in our profile.

25/06/2025

Our Aeta accent and coffee table collection is perfect for summer. Handmade by artisans in the Philippines, these stunning coffee and side tables are inlaid with shimmering capiz shells. Named for the Aeta, who are considered part of the wider Negrito community of Southeast Asia, each handmade table is a cultural celebration for the home. Explore the collection at the link in our profile.

24/06/2025

Amy Sherald: American Sublime will run at the of American Art through August 10th. The first major New York solo exhibition of ’s work, 50 paintings are on display, including her iconic portrait of First Lady , and her portrait of Breonna Taylor, whose murder by Louisville Metro police became a catalyst for the Black Lives Matter Movement. Read all about this incredible exhibition in Issue No. 20 of AphroChic magazine. Link in profile.

23/06/2025

June is national Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) Awareness Month. MCAS is a harrowing chronic illness that our family has lived with since Jeanine contracted COVID in 2020. COVID can cause this complex disease that results in life-threatening anaphylactic attacks that can be triggered by just about anything - a fragrance, stress, a wide variety of foods, even a change in temperature.

Living with MCAS has required us to live differently. Even more importantly, it has taught us that we have to live well. That means limiting toxins in our environment, avoiding stress, and staying in shape through a carefully curated exercise regimen and diet. Living with this illness has also inspired us to think differently about home. That’s why at AphroChic Home you’ll see that we offer sustainable furnishings and decor, focus on natural and low VOC materials, and work directly with artisans who create with quality in mind.

The WHO reports that there are now over 400 million people worldwide living with chronic disabilities like MCAS due to a COVID infection. In light of these growing numbers, we’ve made it top of mind to offer inclusive design services at AphroChic Home - designing for disability, utilizing materials and products that help mitigate infection, and providing consultation services that focus on how to create a safe home that meets the needs of those struggling with chronic illness.

COVID has impacted us all, and as it remains with us, we are proud at AphroChic Home to lead the furniture and design world in creating home solutions that improve health and wellness, taking into account the illnesses and disabilities that impact our daily lives. Yes, there are problems. But things only get better when we use our compassion and creativity to solve them, creating new ways to live well. Learn more about our inclusive design services at the link in our profile.

19/06/2025

This Juneteenth we are ready to celebrate! Hang out with us for a night of great music and good conversation as Hip-Hop artist, Ace Clark joins us for Sounds Sessions - a new AphroChic series that’s part concert, part talk show, hosted by Jeanine and Bryan. For the first time ever, Ace will perform his latest album, “It Ain’t All Love,” in its entirety, blending smart insightful lyrics with R&B vocals and smooth instrumentals. We’ll chat about his life in music, his commitment to mentoring and education and his groundbreaking book, “Dear Black Boy.”

18/06/2025

Connecticut-based interior designer, Naïka Andre, founder of , designed this mid-century modern dream home in Georgia for cookbook author, Nicole Taylor , and her family. It’s no surprise that Nicole, who wrote, “Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations” - the very first cookbook to celebrate Juneteenth - has a stunning home filled to the brim with Black culture. Read the house tour at the link in our profile, and purchase a copy of Nicole’s book at AphroChic Home.

📷 Kristin Karch

17/06/2025

Join us this Thursday night at 7pm EST for a Juneteenth concert live on AphroChicTV. For one night only will perform his latest album, “It Ain’t All Love” in its entirety. This is set to be a special evening full of great music and uplifting conversation. We look forward to celebrating Jubilation and Emancipation with you through this public event as part of our free community programming. Learn more at the link in our profile.

04/06/2025

It’s Juneteenth and we are ready to celebrate! Hang out with us for a night of great music and good conversation as Hip-Hop artist, joins us for Sounds Sessions - a new AphroChic series that’s part concert, part talk show, hosted by Jeanine and Bryan. For the first time ever, Ace will perform his latest album, “It Ain’t All Love,” in its entirety, blending smart insightful lyrics with R&B vocals and smooth instrumentals. We’ll chat about his life in music, his commitment to mentoring and education and his groundbreaking book, “Dear Black Boy.” Stream this event live on AphroChicTV, June 19th at 7pm EST. Learn more at the link in our profile.

03/06/2025

Congratulations to Michelle Joan Wilkinson (), Alexandra Cunningham Cameron (), and Christina L. De León (), curators of the Making Home Smithsonian Design Triennial, on the launch of their book, “Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century” published by The MIT Press () and Cooper Hewitt (), Smithsonian Design Museum.

It is the very heart of our work to share, highlight and recover the Black story of home in America, and we enjoyed writing our piece on “The Hard Work of Forgetting: The Black Family Home and the Two Sides of American Memory,” for this anthology.

Via Publishers Weekly (), “Curators Cameron, De León, and Wilkinson use Making Home, Smithsonian Design Triennial, an exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, as a springboard for this thought-provoking anthology on the intersection of home and design. Bryan Mason and Jeanine Hays, co-owners of media and design brand AphroChic, frame Black homes as sites of cultural memory that offer a reprieve from collective narratives that position the American dream and homeownership as Eurocentric.”

“Making Home” is now available in our bookshop. Get your copy at the link in our profile.

02/06/2025

Outdoor living is a dream with our modern Vineyard collection. This collection is an homage to those who built the stunning Black resort community of Martha’s Vineyard. A haven for Black creatives, luminaries, and thought leaders, everyone from MLK to the Obamas has traveled to Martha’s Vineyard to escape the outside world and enjoy an oasis of peace and tranquility. Bring the Martha’s Vineyard aesthetic home with a collection that blends iron and warm acacia wood to create your very own contemporary outdoor retreat. Link in profile.

23/05/2025

Jump the broom and head off to your honeymoon with these stylish travel essentials from our Jumping the Broom collection, featuring an engaging geometric pattern that celebrates the African American cultural tradition of “Jumping the Broom.” Originating in the antebellum south, the tradition was adopted as a way of demonstrating commitment between enslaved African Americans for whom the institution and rites of marriage were forbidden. It continues today as a mainstay of African American wedding ceremonies – a celebration of heritage and a statement of love. The perfect wedding gifts, explore the collection at the link in our profile.

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