TFS member Sam Shippee recently partic­i­pated in the Fall Field + Supply market, held each October at the Hutton Brick­yards in Kingston, NY. Earlier this year, Sam received a schol­ar­ship to attend FS25 in Syra­cuse, and his creative energy contin­ues to shine through his work as a furni­ture maker and wood­turner based in Pine Plains, NY.

TFS’ Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Monica Hampton was invited to speak to the board of direc­tors of the Fine Objects Society (FOS) during their first-anniver­sary members’ retreat in German­town, NY. Monica shared an overview of The Furni­ture Society’s history, current initia­tives, and strate­gic vision, high­light­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for align­ment between the two organizations.

Congrat­u­la­tions to TFS member Morgan Hill. Her neck­lace, Smörgås­bord, was recently acquired by the Smith­son­ian Amer­i­can Art Museum through the gener­ous gift of Diane Charnov and museum purchase through the Windgate Foun­da­tion Living Artists Acqui­si­tions Fund, 2025.18

From his early inter­est in drawing to his early career in market­ing, Gher­mayn Baker has always been a creator.

The Furni­ture Society would like to thank every­one who shared photos and stories of Gail and Paul as we cele­brated their lives at this year’s FS25 confer­ence in Syra­cuse, NY.
A special thank you to Hayami Arakawa for putting together this beau­ti­ful slideshow tribute.

Explore the work by three Furni­ture Society members at the Jerry Drown Wood Studio Gallery at Arrow­mont School of Arts and Crafts, up from now till May 16, 2025: Alexan­dra Mavrikis, Rebecca Juli­ette-Duex, and Keenan Rowe

Over the course of two days, The Furni­ture Society explored Manhat­tan and Brook­lyn studios, galleries, fabri­ca­tion studios, and the ener­getic hub that is the Inter­na­tional Contem­po­rary Furni­ture Fair (ICFF).

Furni­ture maker, educa­tor, and author Mark Sfirri received the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Wood­turn­ers 2024 Profes­sional Outreach Program (POP) Merit Award. Merit Award recip­i­ents are indi­vid­u­als selected by the Commit­tee who have shown excep­tional devel­op­ment in their careers as artists and whose artworks have directly influ­enced or had a signif­i­cant impact on other artists within the field of woodturning.

Decem­ber 2, 2023 – January 20, 2024

Mark Sfirri, the 2008 curator of Across the Grain — A Regional Wood Exhi­bi­tion, returns to WAC to curate InGrained – An Exhi­bi­tion of Penn­syl­va­nia Furni­ture, Sculp­ture and Wood­turn­ing, the 2023 Craft­Forms’ compan­ion show. In addi­tion to being a furni­ture maker and sculp­tor working in wood, Sfirri is also a teacher, researcher, writer, collab­o­ra­tor, photog­ra­pher, and printmaker.

“The lines and shaping of the parts were very specific but how we got there was not.”