PUBLICATIONS

Todd Merrill Publications

Self-published catalogs for many of the Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary artists are available for viewing online and for purchase through the gallery.

In 2008, Rizzoli published Merrill’s book, Modern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam, now a seminal work on late twentieth-century American studio furniture.  To celebrate the tenth anniversary, in 2018 Rizzoli published an expanded edition, adding 60 pages to his original book. This survey of the period continues with two massive additional chapters focused on Women Makers and Showrooms.

Please contact the gallery for more information on publications.

Todd Merrill Custom Originals

New York designer and gallerist Todd Merrill creates customizable furniture with both twentieth and twenty-first-century flair. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

John Procario

Procario pushes the limit of breakage to create a sense of strain in the otherwise fluid gestures of his wooden works. Conceptually, this allows beauty to be the product of stress. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Curtis Fontaine

Contemporary ceramist Curtis Fontaine unequivocally embodies the vanguard spirit of the artists of the 1960s who fostered a re-examination of the purpose of clay and turned traditional thinking of pottery on its head with works that were expressive, challenging, and created specifically to exist in the aesthetic sphere. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Molly Hatch

Molly Hatch’s historically-inspired contemporary repertoire of ceramic works of art. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Markus Hasse

Combining a mastery of traditional sculpting techniques with a contemporary approach to material-driven art and design, Markus Haase creates unique, sculptural furniture and lighting. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Sophie Coryndon

Imaginative and innovative, Coryndon has forged a successful career of combining traditional craftsmanship and specialist finishing techniques in a fine art realm. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Maarten Vrolijk

Amsterdam-based artist and designer Maarten Vrolijk believes that art should make people’s everyday lives more beautiful through the many little details that evoke the unexpected. While strongly influenced by the natural world, Vrolijk is not on a quest to expose an imitation of the “real” world, but rather, is on an exploration of the simple, unequivocal, and often overlooked aspects: color, form, delicacy, strength, transparency, ephemerality, that provide a map to the fascinations we gravitate to when experiencing the world around us. Vrolijk’s large-scale vessels have been collected and exhibited in several renowned international museums including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Groninger Museum. Todd Merrill Studio is pleased to be the exclusive representative for Vrolijk’s work in the Americas. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Gary Magakis

When creating his bronze and steel sculptures and furniture, Magakis looks to ancient metal arts, modern architecture and sculpture, and the American Studio Craft Movement for inspiration. His distinct approach to design produces bold and dense geometric forms that exude a Modernist elegance and buoyancy. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Lionel Jadot

While not easily categorized by a singular style, Jadot’s work could most easily be recognized by his affinity for repurposed materials and his deft eye at creating harmony and balance out of the collision of disparate elements. With the vision and confidence to experiment and evolve, Jadot has made a practice of skirting tradition by mixing genres, inspirations, and materials to achieve his iconoclastic vision. Key to his work process is a strong belief in craftsmanship and integrity in terms of behavior and approach. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Eric Speer

Erik Speer, a nomadic artist, has spent the past eight years crafting experimental fiber art collages, employing techniques like macrame, crochet, knitting, felting, and weaving. Rooted in his personal narrative and deeply evocative, his sculptural “tapestries” reflect his journey from Roswell, New Mexico, to South Carolina, where a fascination with the ocean blossomed during high school and college. Despite initially pursuing marine biology, Speer found himself unfulfilled and transitioned to fashion design in New York City before delving into fiber arts. Inspired by his diving experiences, his work often mirrors the ocean’s forms, employing natural materials and intricate techniques. Speer’s creative process embodies a meditative calm reminiscent of underwater exploration, as he strives to convey the essence of his aquatic encounters through his art. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Jamie Harris

Jamie Harris’ spellbinding glass sculptures and lighting designs boast a dynamic quality rooted in his ability to capture the alchemy and activity of the glass making process into a static, impenetrable three-dimensional image. Within the scope of Fine Art there is probably no practice more miraculous, physically demanding, and precarious than glass making. Glass only has a transitory period when it can be manipulated, requiring a team of people to work in tandem to achieve the artist’s ambition. Understandably Harris describes the process as a dance or a performance. His multi-disciplinary method reinterprets traditional techniques, utilizing the foundations of glass blowing as a method of building up an initial form before finishing each work in a kiln, pressing the glass into its ultimate shape, thereby solidifying the image. This act is equal parts experimentation and risk. He describes it as a “science of prediction: anticipating how the color of a bubble blown at the furnace will dilute days later when cast as a solid object, forecasting how fields will distort and move as elements are joined in the casting.” Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Alice Riehl

By combining French decorative arts motifs, organic imagery, and contemporary motivations into visual poetry, French artist Alice Riehl’s porcelain wall murals exist in a liminal space between the natural and constructed worlds. Nurtured by the memory of her grandmother’s needlework, Riehl explores the combination of porcelain and lace, working the peculiar texture of this marriage into a personal signature of her botanical inspired ceramic works. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Christopher Russell

In a career spanning over 30 years, New York City artist Christopher Russell has devoted himself to creating unique works of art, functional design, custom architectural elements, and large-scale commissions in an ever-expanding exploration of clay, his principal medium. Originally focused on painting and drawing, Russell was attracted to the malleable properties and endless possibilities of clay, which can traverse the divide between functional and purely aesthetic. Initially translating his draftsmanship to decorative graphic tiles, his work eventually progressed into hand-built sculpture, and most recently decorative vessels. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Stefan Rurak

Brooklyn-based Stefan Rurak’s furniture defies conventional boundaries – merging fine art aesthetics, modern conceptual design, and traditional, hand-made craftsmanship techniques. His evocative, one-of-a-kind works are the type of collectible pieces built to span generations.Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Draga and Aurel

Founded in 2007 in the town of Como, Italy, Draga & Aurel is a multi-disciplinary design studio that works along the spectrum of furniture, textile and interior design. Draga Obradovic began her career in the fashion industry, first working in London and Milan as a textile designer before eventually settling in Como. Aurel K. Basedow graduated from Milan’s Accademia di Belle Arti with a degree in Fine Arts, having previously trained as a carpenter and woodworker. The most recent capsule collection reflects the use of transparent materials as well as a deeper exploration of what transparency can mean in art and design. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Alex Roskin

Alex Roskin’s works blend functional design with modernist sculptural references. A natural successor of innovative artists such as Richard Serra, Jean Arp, and Constantin Brancusi, Roskin’s cast bronze, stainless steel, and carved wood worksreflects the artist’s modernist and primitive influences.Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Dominick Leuci

Art Nouveau, Romanticism and Modernism are all touch points for artist Dominick Leuci in creating the fresh visual lexicon of what he refers to as ‘Romodernism’. Individualism and sublime nature capture the Romantic era; curvilinear flora designs convey the period of Art Nouveau, and when combined with the non-traditional approach of the Modernist movement, Leuci’s work becomes unlinked to any specific period of design.  It hovers and floats freely into the future. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Gerri Spilka

By taking ordinary pieces of cotton and transforming them into forceful collages of luminous color, contemporary textile artist Gerri Spilka brings together disparate elements of quilting, modern abstraction, and human interaction to re-imagine work of traditional sewing into a visual narrative on the collective experience. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Erin Sullivan

Sullivan creates customizable sculptural furniture pieces using a complex process of three-dimensional assemblage and sculpting. Employing advanced casting techniques, Sullivan constructs exquisite, realistic bronze interpretations of her organic subject matter. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Djivan Schapira

Designer Djivan Schapira draws from a wealth of divergent experiences and inspirations to create unique works of collective design that are as cleverly functional as they are playfully animated.  His sun-drenched New Jersey studio, with unparalleled views of the Hudson River and the New York skyline, is a riotous amassment of art, vintage furniture and objects, graphic design, and an expanding tangle of houseplants. In spite of this aesthetic chaos, which fuels his creative motivations, his works are remarkably distilled and confidently realized. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Mindy Horn

Ceramist Mindy Horn’s believes that a life, an idea, or a work of art all begin with perfection, or as she puts it “an untested plan of what they are meant to be.”  In the course of development, as each are nurtured and buffeted by forces beyond their control, they are constantly mutating in order to grow and survive.  In her work, it is precisely this mutability or ability to adapt an altered blueprint that creates complexity and deeper layers of meaning. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Paul Evans, The Argente Series

Todd Merrill Studio presents an unprecedented collection of original Paul Evans Argente Studio works from three distinguished private collections. Each originally installed in the collectors’ homes by Evans himself, the works now offered for purchase have never been seen publicly. Given the scarcity of existing Argente pieces and their infrequent public availability, an assembly of this magnitude will possibly never be presented again. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Karl Springer LTD

A unique partnership between Todd Merrill Studio and Karl Springer Studio. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the gallery. 

Modern Americana: Studio Furniture From High Craft to High Glam (2018 Edition)

The 2008 publication of Modern Americana became the first full survey of this prolific but forgotten period of design, bringing to life again the works of Samuel Marks, Billy Haines, Wendell Castle, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Karl Springer, James Mont, and many others. This 2018, tenth anniversary edition continues the survey of the period into the 1990s by adding two important chapters on Women Makers and Showrooms. 60 pages have been added to the new edition, infusing the book with book an incredible array of new photography and the inclusion of record setting, iconic pieces from auction houses around the world. Copies of the book can be ordered through the gallery. 

Modern Americana: Studio Furniture From High Craft to High Glam (2008 edition)

In the current world of twentieth-century design collecting, the trend has shifted away from accessible, mass-manufactured modernist furniture and toward designs that were custom-made or produced in very limited editions, with emphasis on American studio design of the 1940s to the 1990s. Copies of the book can be ordered through the gallery. 

James Mont: The King Cole Penthouse

The first book devoted to James Mont, the iconic American mid-century interior and furniture designer. He established his reputation in America for creating custom clandestine bars during Prohibition for Hollywood stars and East Coast mobsters. By the mid-1930s, he had a thriving design business based in New York City.