Heide Martin is a Maine-based designer-maker and our featured member this month! Coming from land­scape archi­tec­ture and urban plan­ning in the Pacific North­west, Heide creates furni­ture and house­wares with simple, high quality mate­ri­als and a Shaker-esque dedi­ca­tion to honest func­tion­al­ity. Learn more on her website: http://​www​.heide​martin​.com/

Jon Billing is a Brook­­lyn-based maker who studied at a lutherie school in Red Wing, MN before taking on furni­ture making. Follow his insta­gram page @bigsandwoodworking to see more of his process, and you can find more of his intri­cate work on his website at: https://​www​.bigsand​wood​work​ing​.com/

Kather­ine Edmonds is a furni­ture maker and designer based in Corval­lis, Oregon. Kather­ine lived in Athens for 8 years, gaining a Masters in Ecology from the Univer­sity of Georgia in 2008. An intro­duc­tory class at the Center for Furni­ture Crafts­man­ship shifted her path and kick­started her career in furniture design.

Kyle Kulchar started his educa­tion in Furni­ture Design at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michi­gan. After two years he switched to the Func­tional Art/​Sculpture program under Bob Marsh. In 2016 he was selected for the Penland Core Fellow­ship, a two-year program at the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina.

Rachel David works primar­ily in steel and non ferrous metals. — ​“I think of furni­ture with a wide inter­pre­tive allowance, some­times I call my work concep­tual furni­ture or art furni­ture. I have a multi faceted prac­tice but the angles divid­ing them are not crisp, furni­ture bleeds into sculp­ture and vica-versa up and upcom­ing archi­tec­tural elements grow seats and tables.”

Geoff McKonly is a furni­ture maker and designer working in East­hamp­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. He is a self-taught wood­worker and started his wood­work­ing career as a builder of wooden boats.