GRIOTS REPUBLIC - AN URBAN BLACK TRAVEL MAG - OCTOBER 2016

Designer and entrepreneur Justina
Blakeney first captured our attention
in her book “The New Bohmenians:
Cool and Collected Homes.”
As travelers, her design sensibility
and the items she collects spoke
to us because they were items that
we also shipped home from destinations
abroad. If you have no idea
how to decorate your home with
your travel finds, then her website
and blog, www.thejungalow.com,
should be the first place you go
for inspiration. Due the success of
her designs, her business has expanded
into wallpaper, textiles and
homegoods. She is a busy woman
and we were finally able to catc
up with her to talk more about the
Jungalow and travel style.
In your first book, “The New Bohemians:
Cool and Collected Homes,”
you write: “We bohemians chase
free wi-fi, we blog from Brooklyn
Laundromats and we check our
email barefoot in Tulum.” It’s such
a great description! After all the
success you’ve achieved over the
past few years, how do you still
make time to get away and what
do you look for in a vacation?
I embrace any opportunity that
comes my way to travel. For example,
this year I was invited to Italy
to teach a workshop, so we turned
that into a family trip, packed up,
and traveled around Europe for a
few weeks. Travel is a vital part of