Handmade Lighting & Furniture Show:

Bill Kreider

Salvaged Steel and Wood Furniture, Clocks, etc.
Kreider designs and constructs his pieces from reclaimed wood, I-beams, and other castoffs of our disposable post-industrial society. He prefers significant materials such as Bethlehem Steel I-beams, pieces salvaged from Hess's Department Store, and foundry patterns from Bethlehem Foundry & Machine Co. He believes we throw out far too many useful things in the trash and estimates that he has personally saved more than 800 cubic yards of material from landfills.

Kreider calls himself a theater refugee. He worked for 14 years with the Pennsylvania Stage Company as a technical director and production manager. He's currently a board member of the Theatre Outlet and previously served on the arts panel for Leadership Lehigh Valley and as a member of the Lehigh Valley Arts Council.

"While I suppose my overall inspiration is the preservation and reuse of discarded materials and objects, in terms of individual pieces it's pretty simple; you're doing a lighting show so I made some lights. With furniture, I do like doing legs that look vaguely insect like so I guess that's an inspiration. My design "philosophy"? is equal parts inspiration and desperation. I have a warehouse full of cool stuff and I have to make furniture out of it. I could say more, but I have to get to work.

Janna Ugone

"An eclectic mix of modern and vintage motifs, glazes and forms are at play. I included hand drawn images that are reminiscent of turn of the century illustrations but I presented them with a current border and timeless base. The sculptural shades are a mix of vintage wallpaper, narrative dreamy geometrics and my favorite natural images: birds and leaves. I love the ceramic surface and these glazes in particular are earthy and painterly; a perfect mix for their counterparts.."

Costa - Trujillo Lighting

Nicolas Trujillo and Teresa Costa have been designing lighting and furniture jointly since 1991. Their mission is to create trendy & stylish lighting at an affordable cost.

Every six months new pieces are designed. Each piece is hand crafted and painted individually in Florida. Their pieces are not only functional lighting, but also pieces of art. Some of the mediums used are hand blown glass, glass stones, forged iron, brass, ceramics, silk, linen, and organic hand made papers.Nicolas & Teresa design and employ 18 craftspeople, including welders, painters and assemblers.

For this lighting show, they have sent several fashion forward new designs.

Greg Gehner

As a hickory handle adds warmth to and absorbs vibrations of a tough steel hammer, I use the warm wood to contrast the cool iron. Though it may seem counterintuitive, I enjoy utilizing the rigid nature of wood and the plastic, often springy qualities of iron. Architectural, agricultural and industrial imagery greatly influence my choices of formal composition. My core focus is achieving a balance of functional utility within a sculptural form. For example, in the strut floor lamp a static object is given an implied motion. By distinctly placing structural connections and juxtaposing static with dynamic lines, final pieces are defined and accentuated.

Steve Bronstein Blackthorne Forge

“I like the challenge of first starting with the function, how an object might be used. Then comes the questions of how that object will sit in space and what place in the visual landscape should it have. What I like about ironwork is the clean graphic line it can create. I tend towards simpler lines and an emphasis on the texture and nature of the material.  What I hope is that ,from afar, these pieces offer an elegant addition to one’s living space and that as they are approached more of the texture and detail becomes apparent and another level of interest is provided.”

Thomas Payne Junker

Thomas Payne Junker has been a blacksmith in Vermont for over 20 years. He is known for designing & creating decorative & functional sculpture in forged iron, bronze, brass and stainless steel.