Sam Klemick didn’t set out to make furniture. For 15 years, she worked in fashion, designing for brands including Rag & Bone and Free People, until the pace and realities of the industry started to catch up with her. “You learn about the factory conditions, you see the amount of waste—wasted product, wasted samples, wasted ideas. I slowly realized I didn’t want to do this anymore.”
Now based in Los Angeles, Klemick makes sculptural furniture that often nods to her background in clothing. The connection shows up more in how she thinks about form and surface, and in an ongoing interest in making rigid materials feel softer than they are. “I loved working with my hands again,” she says of discovering woodworking. “But I never thought it would turn into a career.”
Read more about her, and see her work here.