The May/June issue of Products magazine includes Mod Palm, part of the J. Banks Collection for New Ravenna, on the cover and in the “Coverings + Surfaces” article. View the digital article.

PRODUCTS is a quarterly compendium of new building product launches, installation techniques, research and development news, and picks from industry professionals. The magazine and website offer one-stop shopping for the latest in building products and materials for residential builders, architects, remodelers, and kitchen and bath designers.

Hilton Head Monthly‘s June 2018 issue has a special kitchen and bath design featuring one of J. Banks’ interior design projects and the J. Banks Collection for New Ravenna mosaic tile.

An informational and fun monthly publication based on Hilton Head Island, S.C., Hilton Head Monthly highlights the distinctive and evolving heritage of the Lowcountry. News, opinion, business, health, fashion, bridal, home, real estate, dining, arts & entertainment — if it’s happening on Hilton Head Island or in Bluffton, it’s featured in Monthly magazines.

Joni Vanderslice on what being a local on Hilton Head Island means to her. Published in the June 2018 issue of Local Life magazine. Download article.

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LOCAL Life magazine is about living well in the Lowcountry. Stories are everywhere: intriguing people and places, food and fashion, culture and creativity, homes and health.

Utopia, the UK magazine for kitchen and bath designers and home-owners, has featured the J. Banks Collection’s “Mod Palm” for New Ravenna tile in their “Outside In” feature article. Read more in Utopia.

J. Banks from New Ravenna, Inspired by East Africa

“Joni Vanderslice’s annual travels to Tanzania yielded two tangible rewards.

First, she and her husband were able to establish an orphanage for children aged three to five years. They’d lost their parents to diseases like malaria and AIDS. So the Vanderslices visit them once a year to see how they’re doing, and help with medical care.

“It took us four years to get it opened,” she says. “Now it’s been open for five years.”

And there were the visual patterns all around her – in trees, in palms and in concrete blocks. She translated them first into fabric designs for Kravet. Then came stone mosaics for New Ravenna.”

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Architects + Artisans documents the development of architecture, artisanship and sustainability for the 21^st century. It ‘s not just about designers – but about the people and products that make a well-designed place ring true.

It’s written and edited by J. Michael Welton, whose work on architecture, art and design has appeared in a number of national publications, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Dwell, Interior Design, and New York magazine.  He is the architecture critic for the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., and also publishes a design column in The Huffington Post.

Joni Vanderslice’s design of the “Mod Palm” for New Ravenna is highlighted in Interior Design‘s Spring Market Tabloid 2018. This is a twice-yearly product resource issue from Interior Design magazine.

See more of Vanderslice’s J. Banks Collection for New Ravenna.

Forbes Exclusive: First Look at Kiawah Timbers, Luxury Oceantfront Development Opening In October, 2018.

Exclusive: First Look At Timbers Kiawah, Luxury Oceanfront Development On Private Island

“A new level of luxury living is coming to the exclusive private island of Kiawah, off the South Carolina coast. A barrier island just 25 miles southwest of Charleston—a destination for New Southern restaurants, architecture, and history—Kiawah is named after the Kiawah Indians who inhabited the island before  the English colonized the area in 1670.” Read full article.

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“African Connection” was featured in the May 2018 issue of Hilton Head Monthly. The article talks about Joni Vanderslice’s Valentine Project in Tanzania.

ISLAND DESIGNER JONI VANDERSLICE DISCOVERS A GREATER PURPOSE DURING TRAVELS

Joni Vanderslice believes that when we travel, we bring a piece of the destinations and cultures we experience back home with us — an idea that has influenced both her life and her work.

When Vanderslice first came to Hilton Head Island, it was to work for Charles and Mary Fraser for what was supposed to be a single summer. She ended up staying.

Eventually, she started J.Banks Design Group and did her first interior design project at Melrose Resort on Daufuskie Island. J. Banks continued to grow over the next 30 years, and today the company has clients all over the world.

Read full article at hiltonheadmonthly.com.

Bridge for Design‘s Spring 2018 issue showcased the J. Banks Collection’s Ives chair by Stanford Furniture.