September 16, 2026

The owners of shop Afternoons have spent years cultivating a shared eye for vintage design. But step inside their homes, and you’ll discover two distinct expressions of the same creative language.

Words
Susan Cannon
@susancannon1

Photos
Amber Dawkins
@amberdawkinsphotography

Shop
Afternoons
@shop_afternoons
@addison_ford
@jaclynjoslin

reating a home without rules—one that reflects personal passions rather than trends—is both freeing and revealing. Few people illustrate that better than Afternoons co-owners Jaclyn Joslin and Addison Ford.

As longtime creative collaborators, the pair share an instinctive appreciation for vintage furniture, art, lighting, and objects with history. Together, they run one of Kansas City’s most thoughtfully curated vintage shops. Yet while their aesthetic sensibilities often overlap, their homes tell two very different stories.

The friends are each other’s yin and yang. They’ve been an inseparable, mutually supportive pair going back to 2014, when Ford joined Joslin’s interior retail shop, Coveted Home, as a sales associate.

She immediately recognized his potential.

“He was fairly young and green back then, but I could tell he had a keen eye and passion for good design,” Joslin says. “I knew we needed him.”

One of his best ideas was a curated vintage component called Coveted Home Flea, expanding the shop’s offerings with antiques and found objects that quickly became a popular aspect of the shop.

When Coveted Home closed in 2019, the collaborators pursued separate ventures while quietly imagining another partnership. Joslin refined the concept for Jack’s Daughters, officially launching the home fragrance and lifestyle brand in 2020 with candles, incense, perfumes, room sprays, soaps, and thoughtfully selected home accessories, all while she was—and still is—working with her interior design clients.

Meanwhile, Ford opened a vintage booth at Urban Mining, where he built a loyal following over the next five years.

“We had dreamt of opening another store together pretty soon after closing Coveted Home,’’ Joslin says.

Addison Ford in his living room sitting on a ’60s Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chair.

Books, art, and curios fill the shelves. Vintage studio pottery and an old mannequin hand in front of an antique folding mirror sit above a 19th-century bronze bowl and a handmade walnut and stone lamp.

A vignette in the kitchen where Joslin hand-painted the striped walls beneath marble shelves is a charming display, including a ceramic plate with nude by Tammy Smith of Small Ideas Studio. The marble scalloped tray holds products from Joslin’s home fragrance and lifestyle collection, Jack’s Daughters. Flowers throughout the home are by Lauren Tweedie of Rosedale Floral Studio.

Jaclyn Joslin at her dining table, which was a design collaboration between her and Matt Castilleja in 2014. She wears a skirt by Happy French Gang. The light fixture is by Bobo Intriguing Objects, and the blue column is from Bella Patina.

The paneled wall adds a laid back vibe to this eclectic space with a framed hand-painted wallpaper scrap by Porter Teleo of their Outside the Box pattern. Barbara Cosgrove sconce shades and an ’80s rope chair are each done in leopard fabric. The cane front cabinet is from the shop, Afternoons, and a vintage stool is upholstered in old Kuba cloth Joslin found on Instagram @fleamerketfab.

A view into the kitchen shows the untreated veined wood cabinets Joslin had fabricated for the renovation. The plates displayed on the wall are Turkish, bought from Kate McConnell Studio.

The living room, with eclectic decorative touches, features curtains covering walk-in closets with fabric Joslin Shibori-dyed herself, and the windows with tie-up valances, playing off the feminine throw pillows in mixed patterns. The dresser is by Mitchell Gold, which she carried at Coveted Home, and holds a collection of special objects she has amassed over the years.

An ethereal watercolor painting by local artist Emily Johnson hangs over an antique Chinese chest that belonged to Joslin’s grandparents.

A view from her home office into a reading nook displays worldly goods. The lacquered Parsons desk is vintage. Hanging above it is an abstract artwork she found on chairish.com. Her father passed down the Limoges Urns he found in the ’80s on a trip to France. The yellow canvas artwork was also passed down from her father. It hangs next to a Diego Giacometti Tête de Femme lamp that Ford gifted her for her birthday. The African textiles on the vintage chair and sofa, along with pillows and curtains trimmed in Thibaut fabric, complete the creative space naturally.

The living room gives cool vibes. A 1960’s abstract hangs above the fireplace. The light is a Gaetano Sciolari glass rod chandelier hanging over a Belgian anchor chain coffee table. The 1970s red swivel chairs are from the Pace Collection, and the large cigarette sculptures are by Abbie Ford and Rachael Kauffman.

A striking vignette in the entryway features a 1920s console and mirror that holds a Maitland-Smith shagreen box, and a 1960s Italian bronze table lamp. An African iron currency spear is mounted as a sculpture, sitting at left.

In the dining room, a 1950s abstract by St. Louis artist Kenneth Trueblood sits above the mantle. The unique dining table with its custom inlaid top is from the ’70s. The French art deco étagères hold Ford’s large collection of bronze deco Dirigold bud vases.

An original, timeless Le Corbusier LC4 was designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1928. It sits next to a studio-made claro walnut table.

This fascinating vignette in the dining room features a unique vintage artist-made iron armchair to the left of an antique folk art chest holding many objects, including a Ron Rezek Orbis table lamp. Among the wall decor is a French art deco bronze rope sconce.

On the kitchen shelves a French baguette candle mingles with an antique West African butter churn, Swiss studio pottery wall sculpture, and a 19th-century treenware vase.

That dream became Afternoons, their carefully curated vintage shop, now located in a new West Plaza storefront at the corner of 45th and State Line Road after recently relocating just a few doors from their original space.

Their shared philosophy is rooted in contrast.

“Addison and I both love myriad styles, from Le Corbusier sofas to primitive tables and antique cabinets,” Joslin notes. “The mix is what we love most.”

She credits Ford with sourcing exceptional vintage lighting—from ceramic-base lamps to sleek brass and chrome fixtures.

“I think we have some of the best vintage lighting in town,” she says. “I would say he brings the ‘masculine’ energy—heavy iron or bronze sculptures or candlesticks—and I bring the more ‘feminine’ energy with striped or floral- patterned textiles and accessories.”

That complementary dynamic is equally apparent in their homes.

Joslin shares a beautifully preserved 1910 Victorian in the Volker neighborhood with her mother, whose artistic sensibility shapes the first floor and part of the second. Joslin, her partner, and her 11-year-old daughter transformed the third floor into an apartment-like retreat, with spacious bedrooms and baths below. Her style reflects the eye of an avid traveler and lifelong collector.

Ford’s aesthetic unfolds quite differently inside his 1958 home in the Northland’s River Forest neighborhood. There, statement-making furniture, sculptural lighting, and carefully placed moments of irony and humor inject his point of view.

Walking through their homes feels much like browsing Afternoons itself: every object has been carefully considered, every room tells a story. Though Joslin and Ford share an impeccable eye for the hunt, their personal spaces reveal that the true art of collecting lies not in what you find, but in how you make it your own.