Harry Anderson
Harry Anderson’s work has always been connected with an affinity towards the found object. His functional work includes lamps and chandeliers also made from recycled and found objects. The artist says that the integrity of these objects and their ability to evoke past purpose makes their reuse as elements central his work. Harry is a full time artist whose past teaching credits include Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Pilchuck, Stanwood, WA and Haystack, Deer Isle, ME. Anderson received his BFA from the University of Illinois and MFA from the Pennsylvania State University. He has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. His light sculptures have been widely seen in both solo and group exhibitions. They are included in numerous private and public collections.
Anthony Angelicola
Anthony Angelicola is a multi-media artist who creates furniture inspired by the intersection of form, function, sustainability and economy. His work ranges from unique pieces to proto-types for large run production.
Michael Biddison
Michael Littlewood Biddison makes fine & functional art for the soulful home from recycled and found materials.
“I refer to my art as “Shrubbi” which is my own word for transformed rubbish. I find rubbish enchanting. What many people experience as useless fragments sing for me. Used objects have an unmistakable magnetism, a result of accumulated sensuous contact from other beings and the elements. I am especially attracted to objects that once had a clear function (old architectural elements, tools, furniture, and machinery) that I find in a suggestive state of mystery. These are partly told idiosyncratic legends that have a longing quality. They call to be felt, enjoyed, and made whole by being merged back into the living fabric. My own visions and personal stories blend into them, often with humor and irony, always with a non-dogmatic reverence. Creating Shrubbi is a process of reincarnation: combining, including, and harmonizing.”
DM Braun
D M Braun & Company manufactures and distributes furniture for public spaces. Our products are engineered for use in the high traffic areas such as the common areas of shopping malls. We also serve the Hospitality, Healthcare, Institutional, and Landscape markets. Environmentally sound practice has long been standard procedure at D M Braun & Company. For example:
Aluminum castings are made from recycled aluminum.
Metal, wood and upholstery scrap are all recycled. Metal finishing is done with a state-of-the-art pollution free powder coating system. Wood finishes are low VOC and catalyzed. Adhesives are formaldehyde-free.
Amy Forsyth
Amy Forsyth makes things-- furniture, drawings, sculptures, music, musical objects. Found objects and ideas are often incorporated into her work. Trained as an architect and a musician, she teaches three-dimensional and furniture design at Lehigh University and sings and plays the fiddle in various venues.
Michael Hurwitz
Michael Hurwitz has been making studio furniture since earning a BFA
from Boston University's Program in Artisanry in 1979 and was Head of
the Wood Department at University of the Arts, Philadelphia between
1985 and 1989. He has shown extensively, including several solo
exhibitions at the Peter Joseph Gallery and Pritam and Eames Gallery in
NY. His work is represented in several public collections including the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, and the Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, DC.
Michael Hurwitz is the recipient of many honors including three
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowships, Japan
Foundation Fellowship, and PEW Foundation in the Arts Fellowship.
Bob Ingram
For Bob Ingram (one of the founders of the Philadelphia Furniture show) making things has been a lifetime passion. The artist says he seeks to make things that have energy, warmth, humor, and zest that helps make life worth living for him, the maker and hopefully for those who experience the product. The strength of Bob’s furniture is at it’s core, in the act of creation and in the character of the materials used.
Jack Larimore
Jack Larimore has worked professionally as a studio furniture maker in Philadelphia for 27 years and has taught at several colleges and universities. He has exhibited internationally and has work in numerous public and private collections. Through his work he pursues an intimate experience with organic process.
His studio is currently located on a farm in Southern New Jersey.
Kimberly Madeya
Kimberly Madeya is a recent award winning Philadelphia University Alum.
Luis Montoya
Former architect Luis Montoya favors hand formed concrete with contrasting rough and polished surfaces integrated with raw steel and complimented by sustainable woods. His surfaces are enriched with hand applied oils and water based finishes that are designed for interior or exterior use.
Michelle Post
Michelle Post was born in Trenton, NJ and recently relocated to South Jersey with her husband Dave Carrow. With no formal training in the arts, Michelle honed her artistic prowess by seeking out those who could teach her what she wanted to know about any given project. She apprenticed with Stefan Martin for wood engraving, picked the brains of many admired sculptors, photographers, printmakers, painters, dressmakers, designers, craftsmen, writers, sign makers, and a variety of cantankerous beings she has met in her journeys in this world.
Her Shaker Furniture Collection was born from a need to do something with the 1,500+salt and pepper shaker collection that finally got out of hand. Her husband joked one day and said to glue them to tables and chairs and call it “Shaker Furniture.” Good thing she listens to her husband every once in a while.
Mike Parsell
Mike Parsell is a residential and commercial contractor that designs one off furniture pieces utilizing scrap wood “off cuts” left over at job sites. His minimally designed and highly functional pieces are finished with water base products. Parsell has also created a line of lighting constructed out of vintage drums.
Sina Pearson Textiles
Sina Pearson, in 1990 founded her own company, Sina Pearson Textiles, which designs, manufactures and distributes exclusive upholstery textiles for contract, healthcare, institutional, hospitality and residential use. Always ahead of the curve, she has won numerous awards for design excellence and continues to make technological inroads. Since its inception, Sina Pearson Textiles has introduced more than 200 designs to the industry.
Sina is an advocate for the Nature Conservancy and is committed to green design. She has established a giving program for the charity and makes every effort to find sustainable sources for her fabrics. "I believe in wasting less, using what we have more economically and leaving more for future generations."
Michael Shannon Designs
A special thanks to interior designer Michael Shannon for his assistance with the layout.
Wells Vissar Scagliola
When Wells Vissar Inc. was established in 1993 the use of scagliola had vanished as an architectural option. We found ourselves to be educators within the building community. The word scagliola derives from the Italian scaglia, which means "scales or chips of marble." Although this artificial marble is indistinguishable from the original, it is actually colored and polished cement. Scagliola was used extensively in the western architecture of the 18th, thru early 20th centuries. Examples include many State Houses and Theaters across the country built in the early 20th century. Scagliola provides a durable surface, which is far more permanent and far more realistic in appearance than faux surfaces. Because it is air dried this product has a very small carbon foot print, the addition of recycled fly ash makes it even more so. The durability of the product makes it even better choice for the green conscious designer. Scagliola can be casted into forms that would virtually be impossible or cost prohibited carving out of natural stone, therefore, making it a particularly attractive option for the design industry.
Shaw
Sustainability through Innovation™ That's the Shaw Green Edge®, their commitment to creating the most beautiful — and sustainable — flooring in the world. Rooted in the drive to continuously improve every aspect of the business, the Shaw Green Edge guides everything they do, every day — from maintaining highest ethical standards to safeguarding the health and well-being people and communities, conserving energy and water, recycling materials and designing cradle-to-cradle products that can be raw remanufactured over and over again. Shaw helps create a better planet for their customers, their people and communities in the process. Kate Sweeney Resources Kate Sweeney celebrated 20 years this August as an independent rep in the Philadelphia market. After graduating from Moore College of Art with a BFA in Printmaking, she began working in the interiors business as the Resource Coordinator at CUH2A in Princeton. Kate then was Resource Director at Curtis Cox Kennerly here in Philadelphia in the late 80's. Besides representing 6 companies at this time, she is also an Adjunct Professor at Philadelphia University where she is teaching Textiles and Materials for Interior Architecture. She is also Mom to 17 year old Will, her biggest job.