Jack Larimore

Jack's experience in nature’s singular functionality is to develop a working process that integrates the experience without prescribing it, that results in a sense of completeness where the sensual and the spiritual converge. He wants his process of making furniture to offer the same sense of wonder and fullness that he feels when in dialog with nature. Relying on nature and his background in landscape architecture as references, Larimore investigates the boundaries of function within his furniture. He energizes his pieces by emphasizing the vertical members—skinny table legs, crooked chair-back vertebrae, knock-kneed pedestal risers. These vigorous, wiggling appendages resemble plants, insects, and animals. The organic forms allow for improbable structures to create their own characteristics through his use of materials. Currently he is Associate professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.