RISD Furniture MFA
FURTHERMORE collection
Furthermore is a collection of new work from the 2014 MFA Furniture Design students at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Each of the eight MFA candidates connect what is and what could be through interests spanning experimental fabrication processes, traditional furniture design, interior design and sculpture. Upon graduation, the group looks to add their own voices to the global conversation about the future of object design.
Teshia Treuhaft
Teshia Treuhaft is a Michigan-born furniture designer. Prior to attending RISD, Teshia graduated from the University of Michigan, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design with paralleled studies in Design, Urban Planning and Philosophy. Teshia’s design work deal with drawing attention to ambient conditions of an environment through object. Her MFA thesis focuses on blurring the distinction between object and architecture, using light, sound and duration. Post-graduation, Teshia will be traveling between New York City and Berlin documenting alternative educational spaces, understanding how they might prepare young designers for careers in changing cultural and economic conditions. Funded by a research grant issued by RISD, she will explore the future of cultural and educational institutions in the digital age.
Teshia Treuhaft design
Brandon Walker
Brandon Walker is an artist and designer currently residing in Providence, RI. He has balanced a career in fine arts and design since obtaining his BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2002. Brandon has worked in both large design firms and respected art and design colleges in the field of digital fabrication and model building, a career that has influenced and directed his current practice to the focus of furniture design. His work seeks to highlight the linkages between the fragments of memory contained in objects, connecting the familiarity of the past with new objects that live and function in the present.
Brandon Walker design
Andrea Parikh
Andrea Parikh is designer + maker + cat ally raised in the dusty flatlands of Dallas, Texas. In 2009 she received her bachelors degree in Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has worked at various firms, taught at RISD and has spent time working with the powerhouse that is Martha Stewart. Her work focuses on the impact materiality + structures have on our relationship with objects and she is also fond of goats.
Andrea Parikh design
Mariel H. Manzur
Mariel H. Manzur is an interior and product designer whose work explores traditional Mexican crafts and materials. In 2011, she received a BFA in interior design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Though research and making, Mariel brings together historical understanding of Mexican culture and a contemporary design vision. By creating a balance between traditional crafts and manufacturing techniques she works as both artisan and designer, often employing intricate pattern-making and weaving techniques with a pop of color.
Mariel Manzur design
Kjartan Oskarsson
Kjartan Oskarsson is an Icelandic born designer. He studied Interior Design at Istituto superior di architettura e design (ISAD), Milano, Italy in 1998. Since he has been involved in numerous interior-, furniture-, and lighting-design projects in Iceland, Italy and China. In his most recent work, he focuses on lighting and lamp design, with the aim of using interactive techniques to connect the user and object.
Kjartan Oskarsson design
Alex Kuzio
Alex Kuzio is a designer and fabricator based in Providence, R.I. He has worked in furniture and product design, interior design, set production, and traditional cabinetmaking in New York City, Dallas and Los Angeles. In 2010, Alex trained at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine and then spent a year apprenticing under a master craftsman and cabinetmaker in Dallas. In addition to pursuing his master’s degree, during the last two years he has worked at Commune Design and Jonathan Olivares Design Research in Los Angeles. He has taught a course on site specific furniture design at RISD and currently helps manage a CNC technologies lab. His designed objects experiment with and manipulate traditional craft processes in an attempt to explore novel design while referencing the history of furniture production. After leaving the creative womb of RISD, Alex plans to work in design collaboration, design consultancy and develop his own furniture fabrication studio.
Alex Kuzio design
Ryung Kim
Ryung Kim is an artist/designer, currently studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and received her bachelor’s degree in Product Design from the Hong-Ik University in South Korea in 2010. Before attending RISD, she took a month and a half solo trip around Europe and Asia to experience different cultures and broaden her perspective on design. Ryung’s design process is deeply rooted in concept, using natural elements as water, light, wood and time to create new objects that speak about human life. She is interested in lending her pieces their own voice by which to communicate with a viewer. In her thesis work, she is studying the relationship between the human mind and physical body through illustration, sculpture and installation.
Ryung Kim design
Jude Hughes
Jude Hughes was born in Pontiac, Michigan and raised in Providence Rhode Island. He earned a B.A. in studio art at the University of Rhode Island in 1999 and a B.F.A. in furniture restoration at the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2007. For over a decade Jude has worked internationally as an antiques restorer, installation specialist and art fabricator. Jude’s current design practice demystifies mass manufacturing by recreating production techniques from the industrial revolution. By bringing these techniques into the studio he is able to re-establish a material understanding lost through specialization. Through this method, his work deconstructs the link between social structures and mass production. His work addresses the migratory movements defined by daily routine, the structure of memory and the life of objects in the production cycle. Jude chooses processes and materials as much for symbolism as for their structural and aesthetic value. He currently lives and works between Providence, R.I. and Brooklyn N.Y.
Jude Hughes design