Kevin Dumais Shares Fashion Staples, Sunday Pastime + More

It wasn’t lengthy after inside designer Kevin Dumais began engaged on his personal that he knew the career was his true calling. “It was the top of a venture set up, the development was over, and our shoppers walked in and noticed their new house fully furnished for the primary time. There have been tears of pleasure and gratitude for lastly making their New York house really feel like residence. That’s why I do what I do,” the 16-year veteran of the business shared.

Primarily based out of each New York and Connecticut, Kevin’s fashion is a casually subtle aesthetic that brings collectively metropolitan class and a relaxed vibe. His inspiration comes within the types of mid-century fashion and a love for antiques, wealthy textures, and funky hues.

Kevin Dumais Photograph: Drew Innis

Alongside his husband Charlie, Kevin can be co-founder of Dumais Made. The model includes a full line of distinctive handmade ceramics, together with lamps, candlesticks, vases, and extra. All the work is created by the duo out of their Bantam, Connecticut studio.

With two companies, concepts come at Kevin from all instructions – so he can at all times be discovered carrying hint paper and a aptitude tip felt pen. “I at all times have a roll of hint paper between my workplace and residential,” he shared. “Ideas come and go so steadily, and generally a fast sketch may also help me seize on paper what is likely to be fumbling round in my head and helps me and my staff brainstorm throughout a venture’s charette.”

After learning inside design on the New England College of Artwork and Design, he led tasks for plenty of prime Manhattan designers, together with Russell Groves, earlier than opening his personal agency in 2009. Kevin’s work has been featured in The New York Occasions, Elle Decor, NY Magazine, Luxe, and extra.

As we speak, Kevin Dumais is becoming a member of us for this week’s Friday 5!

Photograph courtesy of Church’s

1. Church’s Pembrey Studded Loafers

These loafers had been a spontaneous buy throughout my first go to to London, so that they already maintain some nostalgia and have managed to be the one shoe I maintain in rotation year-round. They’re traditional black leather-based penny loafers with a contemporary fringe of studded particulars.

Photograph: Kevin Dumais

2. Sunday Mornings With Cookbooks

My favourite a part of the week is Sunday morning, with two cups of espresso and a handful of cookbooks to peruse for that evening’s dinner. A brand new guide that discovered its method into my assortment is the cookbook from Barbuto restaurant in New York Metropolis. The restaurant is one in every of my favourite go-to locations within the metropolis. I typically order their roast JW hen and pasta carbonara.

Photograph: Kevin Dumais (Do you spy Kevin’s canine, Friday?)

3. Dansk Kobenstyle Cookware

I inherited two, a inexperienced Dutch oven and a yellow casserole pot; each had been marriage ceremony presents my mother and father acquired in 1963. My mother by no means used them once we had been children aside from hiding my Halloween sweet, which was a intelligent play by her as she might hear the clank of the enameled lid once I was sneaking it. They’re steadily used at our home in Litchfield, and I’ve since added items to the gathering.

Photograph courtesy Audio Technica

4. My Turntable

My turntable was a Christmas present from my husband, Charlie, which he purchased for me after discovering information I bought however by no means obtained round to purchasing the gadget to play them on. A few of our favourite nights at residence find yourself with us rifling via our document assortment, dancing to our favourite albums on the highest quantity. Aretha: Girl Soul, Stay & Extra Donna Summer time, Madonna’s Madonna Album, and Fleetwood Mac Rumours.

Photograph: Kevin Dumais

5. Cashmere Sweaters

My uniform consists of navy blue cashmere crewneck sweaters. My favourite sweater is from Margarette Howell, however I additionally stockpile these from J.Crew in all of the traditional colours.

Work by Kevin Dumais:

Higher West Aspect, Major Bed room. The problem was a modest, linear room with very excessive ceilings designated because the house’s main bed room. To carry issues again to scale, the ceiling was painted one-third of the way in which down (the partitions) in a deep shade of tan and a contemporary four-poster mattress was put in. Tactile textures such because the ink coloured wool rug and gauze linen material full the look. Photograph: Joshua McHugh Pictures

Grand Military Plaza, Front room. A impartial palette emphasizes hovering views of the Brooklyn and Manhattan skylines, whereas darkish stained accents present an anchoring sense of stability. We utilized items from the consumer’s Japanese and Scandinavian furnishings assortment and reupholstered to synch comfortably with the sunshine, vibrant dwelling house. Photograph: Joshua McHugh Pictures

Franklin Avenue, Nice Room. The aim of this venture was to reorganize house, in addition to lighten and soften the loft’s roughhewn architectural options. We designed on a partition of blacken metal and reeded glass doorways to divide the first bed room suite from the open loft plan. An eclectic mixture of mid-century furnishings swimsuit the couple’s laid-back nature. Photograph: Joshua McHugh Pictures

Kelly Beall is senior editor at Design Milk. The Pittsburgh-based graphic designer and author has had a deep love of artwork and design for so long as she will be able to bear in mind, and enjoys sharing her finds with others. When undistracted by nice artwork and design, she might be discovered making a large number within the kitchen, consuming as a lot info as potential, or on the sofa together with her three pets. Discover her @designcrush on social.