In 1965, Amuneal began manufacturing precision metal components to support several demanding markets including aerospace, avionics, and electronics. Since then they have expanded their focus to offer custom fabrication services to the architecture and design community, combining the latest technology in fabrication with manufacturing creativity.
Amuneal’s plants total over 40,000 square feet of flexible manufacturing space with a full service design team enlisted to provide a complete range of services including: contract furniture, prototypes, furniture components, and custom lighting.
The Chief Executive Officer is Adam Kamens with principal design associates Keith Williams and Mark Gisi.
FLOAT is the inspiration of Jeanne Scandura, an architect who of teamed up with fabricators and designers who found common ground in a love of art, a passion for innovation, and a belief that design can enlighten and enhance the lives of individuals.
Initial investigations into the convergence of sculpture and furniture involved pouring rubber cushions, casting tabletops, and molding light fixtures. Translucent materials create a delicate interplay of light texture, and color. Each involves tactile exploration. Surfaces that appear soft are actually quite solid, and those that appear hard are given pliability of form and line.
FLOAT strives to create objects with material integrity that improve over time, respond to human form, and welcome a dialogue with architectural space. The furniture reflects a joy for experimentation, versatility, and cultural curiosity.
The founder and principal Jeanne Scandura is a practicing architect and educator whose office ScanDesign produces works that holistically integrate architecture, landscape, and interior design.
Otto design group was formed in 1990 as an exploration of the intersection between architecture, art and design. odg is a full service design firm specializing defining, formalizing and implementing their client’s identity into physical reality. Working with a variety of clients in the realm of retail, office, residential, and exhibition design, they have achieved a careful balance between efficiency and sophistication.
Their multi-disciplinary approach has led to the development of their own furniture line, Box Products, as well as two retail/exhibition spaces: fourxfour located in front of their Los Angeles office, and 222gallery, part of their Philadelphia studio. These two additions provide a direct connection to art and commerce; both spaces acting as outlet and informant for odg’s architectural and design work.
The odg design approach reflects the interdisciplinary experience and sensibility of its founder, Philip Otto. With a BA in Fine Arts and Anthropology from Stanford, his education combines the analytical study of society with the creativity of fine art. Throughout his career he has maintained a constant dialog between art and design. Clients include Urban Outfitters, delia*s, and Betsey Johnson.
Jean Won, born and raised in New York, graduated with a BArch from the University of Pennsylvania. She has pursued her interests in art, architecture and design throughout the years working in a variety of cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Seoul, Korea.
Karl Peters is an associate and design director of odg Philadelphia. He has been with the firm since 1996, leaving behind film studies at NYU and several successful independent store designs. At odg, he is responsible for identity design and project management across all media.
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Qb3 is the collaborative endeavor of three individuals all educated as architects, but equally committed to the diverse yet converging disciplines that inform their work.
An ironworker, a graphic designer, and a cabinetmaker; a lover of 20th century literature, a gardener, and a collagist: each brings their personal identity to a work place devoted to the inherent complexities of everyday objects, material/techniques, and meaningful place making.
The firm provides architectural and residential design services as well as a line of furniture systems. In both architecture and design, their firm is devoted to custom building each product to specification.
Veyko is an interdisciplinary firm dedicated to the production of exceptional furniture, architecture and metal fabrication. They strive to create designs, which have simple and clean details for an elegant and timeless aesthetic, and engaging material quality. Metal is an essential ingredient in this pursuit, affording aesthetic and functional diversity, which complements a continually expanding variety of materials. Veyko is unique in that they provide their clients with a full range of services from initial design through fabrication and installation. Whether creating production pieces for large retailers or commissioned work for individuals, both principals continually seek new challenges in transforming environments through design.
Partner Lisa Neely is a registered architect with a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. She also teaches architecture design at the University of Pennsylvania.