New York Magazine

FOR AN OBJET D’ART

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RAINI HOME, 307 Hancock St., Bedford-Stuyvesant; rainihome.com

creative director Yolande Macon and artist Colleen Herman are just a couple Brooklynit­es who buy their oval dining chairs ($375) and twisty beeswax candles from Raini Home, the homeware store Kai Avent-deLeon opened at the end of last year four blocks from her first shop, Sincerely, Tommy. Since then, it’s become a (muchInstag­rammed) destinatio­n for the Raini Home line of

(some slingback, some hand-painted and squiggle-adorned) that loyal fans know Avent-deLeon has in her own Brooklyn brownstone. Designer Onea Engel-Bradley says she visits for its selection of small decorative objects (including vessels by Simone BodmerTurn­er and Jaye Kim), which would be worthy of the most discerning Clinton Hill creative’s mantel.

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