USA Projects

Vivian Beer is an innovative furniture designer based in Massachusetts. She describes her creative process as "sophisticated daydreaming." Artist Statement: The anthropomorphic qualities of furniture are central to the development of the domestic landscape. The objects we use are part of how we form identity through recognition of difference and physical manifestations of social codes. They become both children and predecessors to our intimate experience and we live together on a spectrum between ergonomics and image, play and use, intimacy and performance. My design process is sophisticated daydreaming. I choose a cocktail of images and forms that embody beauty and power: flags, fenders, clouds, tides, tail feathers, rodeos and corporate logos all come into the mix. I combine these with a sense of architecture and furniture design to create objects that are steel calligrapher's lines in three-dimensions. The tacit relationship in a piece of material to line and design, symbol and metaphor (which is what this cocktail becomes) drives architectural choices. Sampling images of the past with materials and current aesthetics I am gathering together gentle recollections of style. Form follows imagination, and function is a script for where and how we interact with these creatures we live with.