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Jonsara Ruth / Salty Labs
We are in a process of modifying existing furniture pieces to give them a different life. Our process is a collaboration with the original maker, designer, or manufacturer. While we deconstruct and clean the piece, we learn about the original decisions which brought the piece into existence. Our decisions to add or subtract materials and finishes carefully respects the integrity of the piece, its original use and its marks of age.
This piece is one in a series.
Salty Labs is an experimental design studio aiming to elevate human experiences. The studio was founded by Jonsara Ruth in 2011 to bring together experts from a wide variety of disciplines and perspectives to create designs at a variety of scales – interiors, events, installations, furniture, and manufacturing. Making new places and things while keeping people, places and economies as healthy as possible is a value that underlies all of the work. Jonsara Ruth is an artist and designer. She is Design Director of Healthy Materials Lab, Founding Director of the MFA Interior Design program, and Associate Professor of Interior Design at Parsons School of Design. Central to her work is curiosity, listening to and learning from diverse perspectives, and studying human experience, behavior, and health as principal motivations for design. Material curiosities drive her research.
