Design Hunting

Photographer Kelly Marshall’s warehouse fantasy in Bushwick

Marshall took this

when she lived in Paris.

“I gave myself a mandatory twohour-a-day walking

tour to take photographs, and this was taken from

the top of the Pompidou Centre.”

She also hung a

with slides on the wall.

Marshall’s circa2018 of Linda Jones, who is a postpartum doula and birth-justice

activist in

East Oakland,

California.

The

is circa 2000. “My husband loves his antique

technology.”

is from Pottery Barn. “I did a story for them, and they paid me in furniture.”

The was photographed by Dominic Sylvain. “He used to live in Chinatown. He has

a great eye.”

“My brother used to work in film in L.A.,” Marshall says, “and he found rolls and rolls of these

in a factory warehouse he was shooting in. So he gave me one.”

“I found this

at the Alameda flea market in San Francisco,” Marshall says. “I wouldn’t say that I am a big collector of old Black stuff, but I just loved

that. I thought,

The

from Anthropologie was bought from

a friend who was moving out

of the city.

“The my parents had when I was a kid,

and that rug I bought in Istanbul

when I was studying abroad

in 1995.”

The

was a gift from designer Rayman Boozer, who offered it to Marshall during

a photo shoot at his apartment.

we find diversity and all those really tough questions.” But after a few trips to see this apartment, which they had found on StreetEasy, and exploring the neighborhood, “I had to begrudgingly agree that we made a fun choice to kind of step out of our zone and jump into another community,” Marshall admits. It is here that Marshall has been working on a documentary, Birthing of a Nation, about the fight to improve maternal health for Black women: “the legacy of Black women’s radical self-care and healing illustrated through the birth-justice movement,” as she puts it. But she won’t finish the film here: The rent hike was too high for them to renew the lease. She’ll miss the place, though not the recycling center across the street. “My husband basically soundproofed our bedroom,” she says, laughing. “We love this place, and if we could just pick it up and move it somewhere else, we would.” ■

“I love that thing,” Marshall says of the bench she found at Housing Works. “I just like to have a seat when you walk through the front door.”

and husband

“We put up the shelving and moved appliances around, installed the ledge where the lamp is, and installed metro shelves with cutting board,” says Marshall. “The sink and cabinetry were there.”

The collaborative newsprint piece, is by George McCalman and

Llane Alexis. Next to it, closer to the windows, is “a classic Parisian ad from the ’60s. Dominic bought it from a grocer on the streets of Paris,” says Marshall.

“Its translation: ‘When the husband comes home, the modern wife takes care of him.’ ”