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What makes a purchase “worth it”? The answer is different for everybody, so we’re asking some of the coolest, most shopping-savvy people we know—from small-business owners to designers, artists, and actors—to tell us the story behind one of their most prized possessions.
Who?
Rayne Schloss is creating anything but grandma’s pearls. Back in 2020, she began making leather goods, home objects, and jewelry by hand while searching for the perfect pearl necklace. After finding that her options were either too expensive or simply not her style, Rayne decided to design her own. After successfully bringing her vision to life, more design ideas began to flow. Enter the accessories brand Only Made, where Rayne’s exploration of pearls now extends to earrings, bracelets, and handbags.
Unsurprisingly, the Brooklyn native established her eye for fashion and design long before launching her own business. Over the past seven years, Rayne has worked in social media and trade account management roles for fashion labels like Steve Madden, Tibi, and 1stDibs. At the moment, she’s a social media manager at an e-commerce destination for used luxury goods.
Rayne’s eye for design is especially prevalent throughout the 750-square-foot apartment that she calls home in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. The space includes a Jamaican tourism poster hanging above her couch, paying homage to her Jamaican roots. “Having representation of culture and Blackness here is important, but not heavy-handed. It’s more natural. This is just who I am,” she says.
Rayne also recognizes that her interior design style is very similar to how she dresses. “There isn’t too much color, but there are pops of it, and the color comes out in the books I have, the extended shoe wall in my living room, and the art I choose,” she adds.
What?
Although Rayne has lived in her apartment for six years, she completely redid the interiors in 2021. “I felt like I outgrew my space,” she explains. “Business was picking up for Only Made, and I thought a second bedroom would be better suited for an in-home studio than my kitchen, but the rental prices in Brooklyn were, as they are now, jarring.”
Instead of moving, Rayne started from scratch at the same address, purging everything but her mattress and getting her landlord to repaint the space. She then completely refurnished the apartment—mapping out every single piece she wanted in her living room on the online design platform Canva—down to her magazine rack. Rayne landed on a Curva Magazine Rack by the Danish brand AYTM, describing it as the perfect piece “that looked nice in this little crevice that sits under my TV that didn’t make the space feel cluttered.”
Where?
The magazine rack was the perfect space to show off some of her favorite art books without them landing stacked on a table. “The prized place is typically the coffee table, but it’s like picking your favorite child—so the magazine rack allows me to showcase a lot more than my coffee table would,” Rayne shares. Her collection includes books from various art exhibits she has seen and artists she admires. “As a designer, I find inspiration everywhere and a lot of that inspiration comes from the books and magazines I collect,” she adds.
Rayne isn’t big on color, so opting for a texture like metal helps to create dimension in her space. “The books also add those pops of color I’d otherwise be missing so I love that you can see the lines of the rack but the books can still shine through. My apartment isn’t very large so every piece has to be functional and beautiful for it to work,” she says.
When?
As previously mentioned, Rayne purchased the magazine rack while she was in the midst of completely redesigning her apartment post-pandemic. “There was this blank space underneath my TV, and I knew I wanted to utilize it for some of my art books so I searched for the perfect magazine rack that was also big enough for the size of the books as well as magazines,” she says.
She initially spotted the curvy metal magazine rack while scrolling Instagram and landing on a home influencer’s account. Unfortunately, the magazine rack wasn’t tagged, which sent her down a rabbit hole of Google searches. But after enough sleuthing, she eventually tracked it down at the Danish Design Store. “It’s perfect because you just see the curves and the metal, but you mainly just see the books,” Rayne explains. “I love the metal and the colors of the books worked with that entire space.The metal complements the softer elements of my space, like my couch and area rug.”
Why?
Rayne was looking for something eye-catching that didn’t clash with her home decor. While certainly a statement piece, the magazine rack doesn’t overpower the other pieces she has in her home. “It’s industrial, yet modern with clean lines. It’s very fresh and current,” she says.
Like the magazine rack, the decor pieces Rayne likes are inspired by her sense of fashion. Designer labels like Celine, Rick Ownes, Comme De Garcons, and Khaite provide inspiration beyond her wardrobe. “These brands inspire me because they can be simple or completely unconventional and interesting,” she says. “With Rick and Comme, their use of draping, texture, and weird shapes inspires me to chase things that aren’t just pretty, but also a little off. Khaite and old Celine offer ease and subtle sexiness that I bring into my home, personal style, and brand.”
Rayne’s wardrobe primarily consists of expressive black-and-white garments with a masculine-meets-feminine flair. Her magazine rack perfectly welds both of these worlds, which speaks to the continued transformation of her home. “I have this Bottega [Veneta] dress, and it has this heavy silver chain lining and is made out of this soft knit. I love mixing hard and soft, the magazine rack shows that as well because the metal and the wire are industrial, but then you have the softness of the curves,” she says.
Currently, the magazine rack showcases Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture, The Works of Hayao Miyazaki: The Master of Japanese Animation, Women Made: Great Women Designers, and a Jamaican tourism book. “I also collect vintage Face magazines, because those are nuts,” Rayne adds. “I have one with Prince and one with Sade on the cover.”
Rayne works remotely, so it’s important for her to have inspiration at every turn in her home. She swaps books and magazines in the rack often to cater to what she wants to pull more often for inspiration. “I want my home to be a point of escape from reality,” she says. “I want this to be a space I enjoy because I’m always here.”
