2011 Participants

Arbolope

ARBOLOPE specializes in creating provocative interior & exterior spaces, installation art, & exceptionally crafted furniture objects. We are dedicated to the adaptive re-use of materials, the re-contextualization of ordinary objects, & a deep respect for the playfulness of design.

David Stine Woodworking

Every piece of furniture I make is one-of-a-kind. I am the fourth generation to steward my family’s land, where I sustainably harvest all my own lumber. My inspiration comes from the inner beauty of trees. Each piece is handcrafted to maximize the raw, natural, singular beauty of the wood-grain.

Laura Bergmann Textiles

Laura Bergmann Textiles produces modern fabrics made-to-order. We reconstruct flat cloth into something with an entirely disposition drawing from resources in the NY Garment Center, Amish community, laser technology studios & fabric mills from coast to coast. See www.lbergmann.com.

3 Axis Inc.

3 Axis is a studio of wayward artists, mad scientists, smart alecks, and over-achievers. We take unrealized ideas and turn them into amazing products for people like you.

Design by Jessie D. Miller

JD Design, a Saint Louis residential interior design firm. Owner, Jessie D. Miller, believes everyone deserves to live luxuriously, regardless of income. The signature style combines vintage and modern, graphic color palates, sexy lighting, investment pieces mixed with thrift store treasures

Modern Industry, LLC

Bringing the art of hand craftsmanship to the world of contemporary furnishings, Modern industry combines old world finishes with a modern aesthetic to create beautiful furnishings for everyday life.

Dawson Morgan Ceramic Works of Art

Artistically functional stoneware centerpieces, decorative vessels and Raku by Dawson Morgan. Affordable and original sculptural clay formed with technical care, natural resources, and strong light interaction. Original art creates original style.

Mails Woodwork

Mails Woodwork creates modern furniture that echoes a historical craft tradition. I build intensively by hand with tools familiar to the workbenches of the 18th century to create work that is sensitively shaped and robust, work that will function and invite for generations.

Studio Durham

Studio|Durham Architects is a full service architectural firm dedicated to working with clients in a highly interactive process. This allows us to fulfill program and budget priorities while maintaining a commitment to award-winning design.

Play Modern

Our indoor/outdoor playhouse are modern, modular, and sustainable. Design your space and then re-design when it gets old. Add an addition or a sandbox. Add a second story or a balcony. Claim your play space and make it your own. Play Modern: Create, Recreate, Re-Create.

Niche

Niche offers unique furniture and home accessories with the option to order custom pieces. Our 5,000 square foot showroom offers a variety of home furnishings along with one-of-a-kind textiles, original artwork, and elegant handmade home accessories. At Niche, you won’t be limited to one trend.

Paul Jarvis Designs

Paul Jarvis is a recent graduate of Kansas State University with a Master of Interior Architecture and Product Design. He is a self described “jack of all trades” with experience in architecture, furniture, marketing, and product design. Sustainability is an important part of all of his projects.

The Design Deli

The Design Deli is a fine decorative painting company with an eye toward modern design. We specialize in custom paint surfaces, hand painted signage, murals and furniture paint treatments for all residential and commercial uses.

Glass Design LLC

Glass and mirrors are my medium of choice. My interest is in combining glass, chipped edges, sandblasted etching, and carving to create custom, personalized and functional art and gifts. Glass becomes alive when the light strikes the chipped edge. I enjoy taking common glass and mirrors and creating the uncommon.

Carousel

My name is Jose Rivera, I’m an industrial design student at the College for Creative Studies. Carousel began as a theme while working on my bicycle projects but now encompasses my body of work. For me the word means, playful and simple, qualities I try to put in my work.

Greg Barth Projects

Greg Barth Projects focuses on contemporary fine art photography with a minimalist flair, a great addition to any modern interior.

ReMain Eco Design

re-main: to continue in the same state; to be left after the removal, loss, destruction, etc. of all else. Owner and designer, Krystal O’Mara, is passionate to create functional and one of a kind home furnishings with found objects.  ReMain Eco Designs produces an eclectic mix of furniture, lighting and décor with vintage, modern, retro, and industrial looks.  www.remaindesigns.com

Alex Rosandick

The Facet Chair is an exploration on giving attention to the part of the chair that is normally left hidden, the frame. The objective was to create a clean, elegant frame, which would be able to complement the bucket and backrest. Further ideation and development is in progress for seat aesthetics.

Goebel & Co Furniture

We are a Saint Louis based Furniture Design and Production company. Our product lines are focused on furniture basics (tables, beds, chairs, ect) that deliver the finest quality design and construction at affordable prices.

 

Merkled Design LLC

Merkled Studio specializes in designing and creating for metal, wood, textiles, felt and leather. Located dually in Portland, Oregon and Chicago, Merkled is the project and company of designer Kari Merkl.

Design Speak

Design Speak’s mission is to get St. Louis inspired by design and speak up about it! We strive to promote area talent, resources and ideas for the home. How does design “speak” to you?

Mirato Design

Mirato Design is a furniture design and fabrication company focused on creating smart, ecological, and multi-generational pieces. Our designs integrate wiring, increase function, and add beauty to your space. Utilizing environmentally friendly materials is important to us, this is why we choose to design with bamboo, steel, and glass.

Hammer and Hand Imports

We ARE history upcycled…The term “upcycled” defines our furniture perfectly. We design and purchase one-of-a-kind furniture and home goods created from old farm equipment pieces, signs, old furniture and scrap metal. You won’t have to sacrifice beauty and elegance buying green with Hammer & Hand. Mixing distressed wood pieces in a more contemporary or eclectic space will warm the room and create a more interesting, layered style. Trends come and go and the furniture goes with them. Hammer & Hand sells pieces that are singular, sustainable and timeless.

Chris Lucas

Guided by cosmic forces, Chris Lucas creates sculpture and furniture inspired by the past, present, and future.

Growing Green

Since 1973, Growing Green has guided customers in the St. Louis area through the world of botanical names and horticultural designs by building the trusting relationships that allow our expertise to be utilized. Our work has received the highest level awards from the Associated Landscape Contractors’ of America… BUT it is our dedicated staff of team players that continue to exceed customers expectations.

Illuminating Design

I design and create custom lamp shades and various light fixtures and I specialize in modern/contemporary design. I make shades, pendant lights, lanterns, chandeliers, and semi-flush mount ceiling fixtures completely by hand with absolutely no pre-made forms or kits!

Spec-Rite Designs

Spec-Rite Designs is the North American leader of fabricating solid phenolic products, lockers, cabinets, furniture, and more. Using environmentally friendly phenolic and stainless steel hardware, our furnishings offer durability, hygiene, and long life cycle. We listen. We design. We deliver.

Space Architecture

We are a collective of architects and designers that translate creative instincts and emotions into built form. Physical expressions of influence and connectivity that balance “What if?” with thoughtful purpose are the result of an inclusive, collaborative culture.

Axi-Ome

Axi:Ome llc, derives from the crossing of two latin words axiom and forme. We engage architecture as research; a mode of representation directly interfaced into social, cultural and economic influences. For us, originality pertains to authenticity where each project is a thesis of situations. We are aware of the representations we employ and how they inform the work. Architects are on the edge of performance and material opportunities with the developing digital operations that allow for increased participation in the building process.

Jipsiboho

Creative Art Director Jenny B invites you “inside” her designs full of “outta the box” ideas that will inspire… Jipsi Vintage Boho. Living offers the art of designing green for those who choose to live a more bohemian lifestyle.

2010 Participants

Centro

CENTRO (pronounced chen – trõ for the italian meaning of town center) is a retail and commercial showroom located in the Central West End of St. Louis, Missouri. Surrounded by boutiques, fine restaurants, and some of the country’s early architecture, Centro indeed is a gathering place for friends, customers, designers, and passers-by.

Chris Lucas

Guided by cosmic forces, Chris Lucas creates sculpture and furniture inspired by the past, present, and future.

Cole Scego Design

Based in rural missouri, USA, cole scego design is a multidiscipline design and fabrication studio focusing on furniture, fixture, and environment design. csd creates work that solicits use and admiration.

Confluence Design and Fabrication

CONFLUENCE Design | Fabrication is a custom design & fabrication studio utilizing emerging digital design & traditional fabrication technologies. This collaborative design studio/shop approach integrates three-dimensional digital modeling with manual and digital fabrication methods to produce custom objects ranging from small scale furniture prototypes, to museum exhibitions and large-scale architectural interiors.

David Early

Woodworker/Furniture Builder/Gallery Owner in St. Louis Missouri

DesignSpeak

We strive to promote area talent, resources and ideas for the home.

Eco Urban

EcoUrban is a developer of mixed-use and single-family residential developments that employ true-green technology in all of our projects.

Flux Materia

Illuminating Designs

All of my shades and light fixtures are handmade with absolutely no pre-made forms or kits.

JFish Designs

Her own work includes slip cast ceramic tableware, kite design for public installation, and a variety of soft products. Through all of her work, the common theme is user interaction. Whether designing the handle for a kitchen tool or a child’s toy, she focuses on the person who will use it and how the experience can be enhanced.

J. Nadine Studios

Jordan Hicks

Make Shift Office was open to visitors in July 2010. Anyone interested in collaborating was encouraged to meet with Jordan discuss furniture, make sketches, and set up a time to build a piece with Jordan in early August, 2010. Collaborators did not compensate Jordan in any way; they bought any raw materials needed to make the piece, and then take it home after the close of FORM.

Kassen Lifestyle

Kassen explores the possibilities of materials through new technologies and strong craftsmenship

Kung Fu Chicken

Kung Fu Chicken is an interdisciplinary art studio run by husband and wife Carmelita Nuñez and Daniel Shown.

Lojo Ball

A stool, a footrest and a seat; LojoBall is a versatile and stylish addition to your home.

Mails Woodwork

Mails Woodwork designs modern furniture that echoes a historical craft tradition. I build intensively by hand, with tools familiar to the workbenches of the 18th century, to create work that is sensitively shaped and robust – that will function and invite for generations.

Mandi Maurer Gray

Mandi Maurer Gray Interior Design offers full-scale Interior Design services that go above and beyond the expectations of her clients’ to create spaces with their lifestyles in mind.

Niche Home Furnishings

At Niche we strive to inspire stylish living by blending design creativity with distinctive home furnishings. With the use of chic modern furniture and a balance of warm textures, we help our customers recognize their own personal aesthetic by incorporating furnishings with a design that reflects their lifestyle.

Space Architecture

We are a collective of architects and designers that translate creative instincts and emotions into built form.  Physical expressions of influence and connectivity that balance “what if?”with thoughtful purpose are the result of an inclusive, collaborative culture.

Studio Durham Architects

Studio|Durham Architects is a full service architectural firm dedicated to working with clients in a highly interactive process. This allows us to fulfill program and budget priorities while maintaining a commitment to award-winning design.

The Broken Wrench Workshop

The Broken Wrench Workshop is a small fabrication shop located in Richmond Virginia specialising in recycling old bike tires, frames and parts. With these materials we build functional, bike inspired furniture.

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