45 Asian American-Owned Home Brands Editors Love

Designed with fun colors and functional knits, Verloop was founded on Ella Lim's love of her family. She shadowed her mother in a Philippines-based knitting factory growing up. She began making knits as a creative outlet, however, it turned into purpose by using the company's leftover deadstock yarn to make multicolored wearable items and home goods.

Michelin star-quality glassware, meet your dinner table. Glasvin CEO David Kong creates his company's hand-blown wine glasses at an affordable price by working directly with expert artisans. His collections include several types of wine glasses, such as The Expression, a glass that helps you take in the full aromas of the wine, are used in top-rated restaurants across the United States.

While LIKHÂ founder Nathalie Lim started out making adorable dog-inspired planters, she has since expanded into all types of hand-woven home goods, kitchen essentials, and accessories enlisting Filipino artisans who use traditional techniques. Her ethical business model also includes making products like this floor basket with sustainable ingredients such as manila hemp, selling goods at affordable rates, and giving her artisans an equitable cut.

Shizu Okusa left her finance career on Wall Street to start Apothékary, a wellness brand that infuses her Japanese roots and passion for holistic health into home herbal blends. The company's offerings include products like a wine-inspired alcohol alternative tincture made with soothing herbal ingredients.

What started out as a passion project after her day job turned into a fully fledged candle business for Melody Lim. Nearly five years ago, the Mala the Brand founder took her savings and committed six months working alongside her mom to create sustainable, small batch candles. If you're not sure which of the brand's clean candles to shop, the site offers a scent quiz that can help you land on a favorite.

The inspiration behind sisters Vanessa and Kim Pham's brand starts with its name. They describe the Vietnamese phrase om sòm as noisy and rambunctious, the same phrase their parents would use to scold them as kids. The founders incorporate this energy in everything from their noodles to sauces that explore customary Asian flavors and communities.

Food has been a love language for Brightland founder Aishwarya Iyer dating back to her childhood with family. Since she couldn't quite bottle up the experiences of sharing meals with them, she decided to launch her organic olive oil and vinegar brand to cook up new memories. Her journey launching her business helped her learn more about her roots, including family members who worked as salt farmers in Tamil Nadu, South India. This not only allowed her to deepen her love for food, but it also gave her a greater appreciation for the organic ingredients like heirloom olives and farm-fresh fruit that she includes in her products.

Jiake Liu and Terry Lin founded Outer in 2018 to inspire homeowners to rethink their outdoor space and elevate it! The brand uses sustainable materials and innovative technology to create weather-resistant furniture that will last.

Brooklyn-based brand Sin, founded by Virginia Sin, developed a devoted fan following for her playful ceramics. They include candlesticks, hooks, and her now-iconic fruit bowls, shown here.

Run by sibling-duo Antares and Capella Yee—Antares is the founder/creative director while Capella is the head of operations— Sun at Six is a furniture studio dedicated to preserving the traditional art of Chinese joinery. This technique includes making solid hardwood furniture without nails and screws. You can find modern pieces for every part of your home in their collection, which spans bedroom and dining room furniture to storage and accent pieces, and more.

Jen Liao and Caleb Wang's journey to founding MìLà actually started when they were dating. After bonding over winter sports, their shared sense of humor, and heritage as second generation Chinese Americans, the pair pursued their brand as a way to honor their family’s histories. As food entrepreneurs, their mission is to create cuisine like their fan-favorite soup dumplings and Chinese noodles that showcase how these staples deserve a permanent place in the American food landscape.

To entrepreneur Chriselle Lim, fragrance is an extension of style and storytelling. As the new CEO and creative director of Phlur, she imparts her experience owning and operating fashion and beauty brands to create fine perfumes. And most importantly, she hopes this will allow her candles to help shoppers narrate their own moods.

After CEO and founder Ying Liu noticed her youngest daughter constantly trying to cool down her skin from chronic eczema, she set out to create Kyte Baby. Today, the bamboo-based brand offers an array of adult clothing and home collections made with sustainable materials.

Pakistani entrepreneur and social activist Shiza Shahid created her multifunctional cookware line in 2019 to help continue making connections across the kitchen table. The Perfect Pot does the work of a stockpot, Dutch oven, saucepot, roasting rack, steamer, strainer, braiser, and a spoon rest.

Created by Shane Monson, Onsen sells bath towels, robes, dryer balls, and other fluffy cloths that have Monson's Japanese culture on the forefront. The towels have a waffle weave that helps make drying off a quick effort.

Shop for sleek storage options for every corner of your home thanks to Yamazaki. The Japanese-owned brand makes your space work smarter, decluttering even the smallest rooms or stressful messes.

Sabai—founded by Phantila Phataraprasit—is a sustainable furniture company that not only sells customizable, high-quality sofas but has a buyback program that makes it easy for customers to repair damaged parts and sell back older furniture.

David Kien co-founded the now-iconic candle brand, Boy Smells alongside his partner Matthew Herman. Both Kien and Herman transitioned from longtime careers in fashion to the home space, infusing their products with that luxury touch from their previous jobs. They created first-of-their-kind scents like LES, a candle that pays homage to one of New York City's many cross-cultural neighborhoods, the Lower East Side. It's infused with notes of rice powder, peach blossom, and cardamom.

Co-founded by chef Steph Chen, Anyday will inspire you to use your microwave for more than leftovers. Anyday cookware was specifically designed to break the stigma that your microwave can create delicious and nutritious meals.

Korean American Tariq Dixon scours design scenes around the globe to curate a stylish assortment of furniture and home accessories for this home brand, which he runs out of his own live/work space in Manhattan.