Amazing Architecture, the international design publication, profiled Hillary Kent in April 2025 under the title The Vision of an Entrepreneur That Connects Global Design With the Richness of Craft.
The piece traces a question that has shaped the studio from the beginning: what luxury actually means, once you stop measuring it by brand names. Hillary’s answer, as the article puts it, is that exclusivity lives in the history and origin of a piece — in who made it, where, and how long it took.
Most interiors treat craft as decoration applied at the end. We treat it as the thing the room is planned around. When a project begins, the studio is already talking to the carpenters, blacksmiths, leather workers, basket makers and potters who will make it — in Baja California Sur first, then across Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean when a piece calls for a skill that lives elsewhere.
Working this way changes the design itself. A dimension follows the timber a workshop can actually get. A palette follows the pigments a potter uses. The constraint is the point: it produces rooms that could not have been assembled from a catalogue, and it keeps the work — and the money — with the people who hold the skill.
The network Amazing Architecture describes runs to more than 500 master artisans. Sustaining it is slow, relationship-led work, and it is the reason the studio can promise a client something genuinely singular rather than merely expensive.
Hillary Kent is the interior design studio. MERCANTIL is its sister company, founded to design and produce the furniture, lighting and accessories the projects require. The Amazing Architecture profile covers both, because in practice they are two halves of the same idea — the design intent and the means of making it real.
You can read how the design side works on our luxury residential and hospitality pages, and how the making side works under Mexican furniture sourcing.
Feature: Amazing Architecture, April 2025.