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According to their bios at www.fire-lab.com/who-we-are , James Payne is a sculptor and alchemist, Luis Laya is a Venezuelan trained architect and cuisine guru. Both have strong ideas about how cooking experiences can change people. They met while making molds at Rookwood Pottery where their common interests swirled around fire and the interplay of heat, air and fuel. As their live fire feasts continued to grow, demand for their “badass”, smokeless, high efficiency, wood fired Dragon Grill increased as well. Chefs and local gathering places like Gutierrez Deli in Covington saw that when you light a fire and start a grill, people will gather. James views gatherings as social sculpture and Luis has an unbreakable spirit from having to start over in the U.S. after leaving Venezuela with his family and no money. We suggest you follow their journey .

The Standard Covington is the newest bar/restaurant from the family who also brought Frida 602, Otto’s and Larry’s All American Cafe to Covington. Co-owners Emily Wolff and Paul Weckman, a husband and wife team, are passionate about historic preservation and the community building that follows. Wolff uses her Fine Arts and Preservation background to rehab and preserve each project the duo tackles. This couple believes that by investing in some of the worst or forgotten properties, that you are allowing history to speak again, and each building has a story to tell. Restaurant owners are often among the main investors in urban communities and yet have taken the hardest hit from the Covid pandemic...So go check out the outdoor space and summer menu at The Standard or visit them .

Manning Contracting is owned by the husband and wife team of Nic and Suzy Manning. They have built an impressive portfolio of Cincinnati area residential and commercial projects working with architects, developers and homeowners. We chose to feature an Indian Hill remodel and a Covington, Kentucky adaptive reuse project with WorK Architecture + Design featuring four Airbnb rentals. Indian Hill cabinetry by https://westerncustomcabinetry.com.
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Shannon Reed at U+ Design selected all the finishes and furnishings for this new mountaintop home at The Greenbrier Sporting Lodge in West Virginia. After graduation with a degree in architecture from Ohio State, Shannon moved to Los Angeles to pursue interior design. During her ten-year residency in Los Angeles, Shannon worked with many notable designers and launched her own home decor line name mini-malist. Did we mention this West Virginia home is for sale and includes her pillows along with all the home furnishings, linens, and a fully outfitted kitchen? So, if life has you craving a second home, please visit https://greenbrierliving.com/property-detail/?productid=787. U+ Design is a Cincinnati based full-service design firm. To learn more about U+ or to purchase directly from mini-malist, please visit https://www.uplusdesign.com.

“Because the Shower is everything”. It takes a lot of hands to make a shower door https://youtu.be/FTvxb2GG618 and we like to highlight local companies who design and make beautiful things, whether it is for a regional or local market. Basco serves both from a manufacturing, assembly and shipping facility in Mason, Ohio. To control the quality of their glass, they also own a glass fabricating facility in Hamilton, Ohio that delivers glass twice a day to the Mason location. You can start customizing your dream bathroom right now at https://bascoshowerdoor.com.

Learning the importance of building functional furniture from his engineer dad, and the value of good design from working with the biggest names in the contract furniture business, inspired Colin Nourie to found Collective Ten. This product design studio based in Cincinnati has been garnering international furniture design awards with products like his new 356 Outdoor Collection for the contract hospitality/residential market. Check out more of his clean, modern aesthetic at collectiveten.com