For Tanner Moussa and his youthful sister, Mackenzie Lewis, high-quality furnishings is of their blood. Their paternal grandfather, Stanley Moussa, based Finest Imports. Their uncle George Moussa based Ambella House Assortment. And their father, Mark Moussa, launched Arteriors, his celebrated residence design and lighting enterprise, 35 years in the past. “Everybody in our prolonged household right here in Dallas has some form of an entrepreneurial spirit,” Tanner says.  

As he and his sister grew up, furnishings and residential design had been a daily a part of dinner desk conversations. Starting in center college, Tanner and Mackenzie spent summers within the Arteriors warehouse, wiring lamps and dealing on the meeting line. Additionally they traveled with their father on sourcing journeys all around the world. When she was in faculty, Mackenzie and her dad spent two weeks in India. There, they shopped  for antiques and valuable stones and met with artisans who had handed their trades down via generations. 

“India modified me,” Mackenzie says. After getting her diploma in high-quality arts, she started working at Arteriors full time. It took her brother longer to make his means again to the household enterprise. He spent a decade in New York, working in accounting and consulting. However he nonetheless traveled together with his dad to commerce reveals. Finally he requested himself, “Why push away one thing that’s actually in my blood?” Tanner first went to work for the net luxurious residence firm One Kings Lane earlier than returning to Dallas and Arteriors in 2019, proper earlier than COVID-19 struck.  

The pandemic and the rise of digital buying, Tanner and Mackenzie say, satisfied them it was the right time to interrupt out on their very own. They left Arteriors in September 2020, and final month they formally launched Mous, their new line of case items, upholstered seating, and ceramics. The 27-piece assortment, known as Narrative Arc, attracts from their many adventures around the globe.  

“Wanting again on the items we’ve collected via our travels, the structure we’ve been impressed by, the cultures we’ve been impressed by—it actually was a enjoyable strategy of determining what we needed this primary assortment to appear to be,” Tanner says. 

The objective is to pair design with performance. The ivory vellum Diptych desk, for instance, options smaller drawers for workplace provides in addition to a cupboard for bigger objects, similar to a printer. Additionally they needed a “little aspect of shock” in each bit, Mackenzie says. It might be using two upholstery materials and an oak veneer in a chair or hiding an LED gentle contained in the Cusp cupboard. 

Mous’ small Design District–adjoining showroom is at the moment solely open by appointment. However the siblings hope that their model’s bigger on-line presence will permit them to remain nimble and sustain with the altering wants and wishes of consumers. 

“It’s been actually rewarding and releasing,” Tanner says. “And it’s helped me and Mackenzie develop leaps and bounds with one another having to do that on our personal.” 

This story initially ran within the October problem of D Journal with the headline, “Fashionable Household.” Write to [email protected].

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