Hollywood Powerhouses Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani Take AD Inside Their Los Angeles Office
When the time came for Hillman Grad to move into a proper office, it was clear that the conventional Tinseltown-status model—sleek white walls for predominantly white people—was just not going to cut it. “We didn’t talk about aesthetics and particular styles,” Waithe says of early discussions between the Hillman Grad team and designer Amie Mays, who had collaborated with Waithe previously on the interiors of her Los Angeles home. “It was about a mood. The feeling had to be warm and colorful, with lots of texture. I wanted to be surrounded by Black art, murals, video loops of iconic moments of Black people in film and television—anything that speaks to my Blackness,” Waithe adds.
