Look to a rising generation of U.S.-based talent reshaping furniture design through material intelligence, experimentation, and innovation.
U.S.-Based Designers Changing The Scene
Jackson Schwartz of Hennepin Made
Product: Emerson
Standout: Named for the American Transcendentalist philosopher/poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, this wet-rated Minneapolis-made sconce in cast Swedish glass (and various metal finishes) by Hennepin Made is a study in suspended motion.
Louis Venturelli of Louis Venturelli
Product: The Painted Chair
Standout: Brooklyn-based painter Louis Venturelli three-dimensionalizes his abstract language by way of a solid-maple chair, crafted with fourth-generation New York builder Mark Jupiter, that’s finished in blue lacquer.
Tania Leipold of Laine + Alliage
Product: Archipelago
Standout: Gypsum dunes and cacti were among Brooklyn-based French designer Tania Leipold of Laine + Alliage’s muses for a grass-cloth wallcovering whose color-blocked forms, digitally printed in Connecticut, are based on her own paintings.
Johannes Pauwen and Michaele Simmering of Kalon
Product: Elemental
Standout: Informed by American modernist design, Los Angeles studio Kalon’s floating side table of sustainably harvested Douglas fir and brushed aluminum celebrates tailored proportions and material restraint.
Jacob and Chelsie Starley of Astraeus Clarke
Product: Vesper
Standout: Crafted in the Astraeus Clarke’s New York workshop, this solid-mahogany dining table—cloaked in clear or colored gloss lacquer and punctuated with lathed-steel joinery—conjures old Hollywood glamour.
Emma Gardner of Emma Gardner Design
Product: Scatter
Standout: Play, a hand-knotted rug collection by Emma Gardner that tweaks classic genres like plaids and florals, posits a self-posed question, “What can be more American than reinvention?”
Justin Nelson of Fernweh Woodworking
Product: Oxbend Windsor
Standout: The Bend, Oregon, Fernweh Woodworking founder’s experimentations with steam-bent greenwood (i.e. not kiln-dried) resulted in a shapely dining chair, with optional leather seat pad and backrest, that doubles as a valet stand.
Annie Downing of Annie Downing Interiors
Product: Micro Lotus
Standout: As a kid, interior designer Annie Downing spent holidays painting alongside her grandmother at their Texas ranch; now, she launches her first wallpaper collection, featuring dainty details rendered in fibrous nonwoven paper or grass cloth.
Source: https://interiordesign.net
