NOVEMBER 2, 2019

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W

hen No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal and his

wife, Erin Lokitz, renovated their Spanish

Revival home in Los Feliz, they decided their

furniture would be like their diet — strictly

vegan.

“We really emphasized the need for a cru-

elty-free home,” Lokitz said. She tapped

Tatum Kendrick, of the L.A.-based design

firm Studio Hus, to source animal-friendly

and kid-friendly fabric. Her guidelines? “No suede or mohair, and no silk, wool

or down,” Lokitz said. A vegan-furnished household, after all, doesn’t include

anything tested on animals or sourced from animals.

It may sound like a scene in “Portlandia” or an “SNL” sketch on California

living: A famous musician and his actress-designer wife are so hardcore vegan

that even silk doesn’t enter their home. But if 2019’s shortages of Oatly’s oat

milk and meatless Impossible Burgers — now sold as an Impossible Whopper

at Burger King — are any indication of the U.S.’ increasingly vegan-adjacent

lifestyle, the Kanal-Lokitz family is ahead of the curve. If not inventing it.

A recent study by food company So Delicious Dairy Free found 31% of those

polled identified as “flexitarians” or those who regularly swap out meat for

plant-based alternatives. A poll by British supermarket chain Waitrose re-

ported that a third of U.K. consumers have cut back or stopped buying meat

altogether. There’s Meatless Monday. The new year’s Veganuary. Is a flirtation

with veganism in home design next? There are definite signs of a burgeoning

(mostly) California-led shift.

The Duchess of Sussex, Los Angeles’ own Meghan

Steve Erle

NO DOUBT bassist Tony Kanal and his wife, Erin Lokitz, decorated their Los Feliz home without leather, mohair, silk, wool or down in keeping with their beliefs.

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