For Tanner Moussa and Mackenzie Lewis, design runs within the blood. The siblings spent their childhood in impeccably designed showrooms, watching artisans at work on manufacturing facility flooring, forging connections with makers, and, most significantly, inheriting a deep reverence for all-things interiors—one born from three generations of furnishings designers on the Moussa household enterprise, Arteriors. They’re now edging to make their very own imprint on the trade with Mous, which launches on-line this week with a line of elevated casegoods, seating, and objects.
As Moussa and Lewis see it, this endeavor is about exhibiting their imaginative and prescient to the trade that raised them. “We wished to take what we’ve realized from the previous two generations and the event of our refined design eye to create an elevated assortment of distinctive furnishings,” explains Moussa. “We’re motivated to place our mark on one thing new and create a model of our personal by collaborating with artisans that we’ve come to know through the years, and now contemplate household.”
That refinement takes form in a sequence of playfully sculptural silhouettes which might be rigorously completed, stitched, and glazed by hand. Rectangular casegoods, svelte seating, and artisan-made objects make up the inaugural assortment, Narrative Arc, which goals to pinpoint the intersection of basic modern design and craft. French Deco’s sinuous varieties and Egyptian influences are additionally cited as inspirations behind the debut designs.
“We’ve been touring our complete lives from factories to architectural marvels and our publicity to those locations and cultures has led us to know and embrace the best craftsmanship and the toughest feats of manufacturing,” says Lewis.