Shawn-Ian Bruce: Product Designer

Parks Dept. 47-B

While running a product design studio that also creates Limited Edition pieces available to galleries, museums and collectors, Shawn-Ian Bruce has attracted international acclaim for his functional and conceptual handcrafted furniture designs. ‘Push-Over’, a stool with six different heights depending on how you turn it over, is composed from one seamless piece of fiberglass. The limited edition Sax Chair transforms the construction of bent sheet metal chairs. One section inserts into the other using angles other than ninety degree bends. Front and back legs join back in on each other for support. Parks Dept. 47-B, a postmodern triumph of technical form and historic style, is his playful interpretation of the classic U.S. Parks Dept. Bench. The long, splinter-ridden lines and informal geometry of its predecessor become a stout smooth Baltic Birch, robust enough to handle a generous girth. Now imagine The United States of Tara reincarnating as a chair and you may experience a commissioned Bruce ‘Flip,’ seating with multiple personality disorder. By day, a 100 degree incline chair, it chills out at night as 110 degree lounger. With two upright positions as well, this fire engine red injection molded polystyrene, with 90 shore 00 cast rubber feet, is built from materials that last generations.

Shawn-Ian Bruce
(323) 988-1169
www.shawnianbruce.com
www.shawnbruce.com