Like many businesses, Bash Party Goods began life as a creative answer to a relatively mundane problem. “I could never find paper plates that I liked, so I decided to make a few,” says designer Angela Wator, who started the company in her Logan Square studio apartment in 2015. Inspired by the Memphis Milano movement of the 1980s, she covered her products in grids, polka dots, and squiggly lines, and used unconventional combinations of color. “Some Australian shops found me on Instagram, coaxed me into wholesaling them, and the brand took off,” she says.
