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Inside AVO Founder Brit Kleinman's Brooklyn Design Studio | Architectural Digest
For about a year, Brit Kleinman of young design label AVO would sit on the floor of her apartment in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, painting giant swaths of leather by hand. “When the hides were touching all four walls, I figured it was time to move to another space,” she says with a laugh, from the warehouse just down the street where she moved her practice. Here, the floor still serves as her primary workspace; bottles of dye line the desk, bins full of scraps are stacked along a wall, and folds of raw, vegetable-tanned leather cascade from a shelf.
The Rhode Island School of Design graduate had worked with leather for years, molding it into handbags and other accessories for brands like Shinola and Jack Spade, but in 2014, a bit of travel and an inherent sense of adventure nudged her to set out on her own. She’d become obsessed with parfleche, a type of painted hide envelope used by the Plains Indians in New Mexico. Inspired, she began experimenting with a similar technique, testing different paints, dyes, and leathers until she found just the right combination.
What began with a collection of painted leather rugs—soft leather hides painted with geometric patterns in nontoxic dyes—has expanded into pillows, and now wall tiles, a collection that she’s debuting at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show this week. The painted leather shapes can create bold motifs, resembling a tumbling-blocks-patterned wall treatment or inlaid stone, depending on your selection.
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