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With his sculptures, Philadelphia-based potter Roberto Lugo has celebrated African American heroes like Angela Davis, Shirley Chisholm, and Kendrick Lamar, as well as memorialized victims of police brutality such as Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Freddie Gray. The work is about representation, the Afro-Latino artist explains: “The first time I sat at a pottery wheel, I felt like I wasn’t supposed to be there.” He hopes his pieces can change that for others, using imagery that will mean as much to a teenager in North Philly as a collector at Design Miami. “Ceramics last thousands of years,” Lugo says. “Someday these pieces could tell the history of my community.” robertolugostudio.com

During the warm months, the glass doors largely remain open to the outdoors, creating the ultimate natural oasis for both solitude and for entertaining. Juank Paredes Photography

Ethan deliberately kept the apartment white and lofty, which he says feels “very New York”

A slew of striking new decorative accents brings additional fodder to the collectible furniture. Detroit sculptor Ebitenyefa Baralaye, for example, conjures the African Baobab tree in his duo of subtly textured 27-inch terracotta vessels dressed in chevron motifs

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A section of the cozy bedroom.

Sherwin-Williams’s Lore paint palette, featuring Blue Peacock on the door and Studio Mauve, Pediment, and Dhurrie Beige striped on the wall. Phot courtesy Sherwin-Williams.

Keys and Dean on the pool terrace. Frank Frances Studio