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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.