Meet the Expert

Wava Carpenter, Editor-in-Chief and Director of Content at design marketplace, Pamono

Not long a er college, where I studied art, I got a job working for a Miami developer

who was restoring and updating two art deco hotels in Miami Beach. I started out as a personal assistant but quickly took over managing the architects and interior designer, and got to help make decisions about the furniture and decor. My work involved researching the original spaces from the late 1930s and mid 1940s. I fell in love with modernism and enrolled in graduate school at Parsons School of Design in New York.

My role is Director of Content and Editor-in- Chief,

but as we are a start-up business, my work covers all sorts of things: from sourcing contemporary designers, to managing our merchandise guidelines and writing stories on both vintage and contemporary design culture.

I’m not sure that I have a ‘typical’ day.

Sometimes I travel to design events to meet with designers and makers. Other days I’m in my living room on my computer, as I live in Miami and telecommute with my o!ce in Berlin.

There are so many works of 20th-century design that mean a lot to me.

Lately I’ve been eyeing-up Hans-Agne Jakobsson fringe lamps (pictured above) and Bodafors dressing tables (as seen below).

My 1938 Miami home is small but full of character.

I love my front room with its high, wood-beamed ceiling, white stucco "replace, lots of colourful contemporary art and a nubby #at woven carpet from Peru.

At this stage in my life, it’s hard to imagine not working in the design industry

– I know so much about chairs! But if I changed careers, I’d de"nitely choose a position that would allow me to work towards a be$er world – politics, for instance, or a charity. pamono.co.uk