By Lindsay Powell

Craven Miller

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Designer Craven Miller crafts distinctive spaces that strike a balance between masculine and feminine forms. “I look for unique pieces that really show per - sonality, either through form, texture, or detail,” says the designer and owner of Design Bank, a Durham store offering a curated collection of twentieth-century items. “I like to use midcentury and vintage pieces, but I also love to mix in some earlier antiques as well as more modern pieces,” he adds. Always striving to create novel designs, Miller finds infinite inspiration in the colors and textures of the natural world, also uncovering new ideas through traveling and experiencing new places and cultures. “I just appreciate thoughtful, considerate, and smart design,” the designer explains. Miller believes that listening to the client to under - stand their needs is the most important stage in any project. “Whether or not the client has a clear vision of what they want or not, I feel my job is to help them achieve something both functional and beautiful, and sometimes helping them push the envelope a bit so they get something unique and special,” the designer explains. “Those are the things that really make a house a home.”