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Interior Designer Speaks Out on Black Decorating Trends

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Interior designer Shane V. Charles founded Mild Sauce Studio in 2019 and shortly after he began posting videos on social media describing decorating techniques that he thought had long existed in Black homes but had never been officially mentioned. The response led to his first forthcoming book, Interior Identity.

When I first saw Shane V. Charles’s Instagram posts describing ancient decorating styles taken from African diaspora references, it felt like he was describing homes I’ve always imagined but didn’t know the language of. In the last year and a half, the Chicago- and Los Angeles-based interior designer and founder of Mild Sauce Studio has … Read more