Sherry Williamson AIA, IIDA is a classically trained architect specializing in residential interiors, custom furniture and lighting design. She received a M. Arch. from Yale and a BA in Architecture and French from Washington University. She studied architecture and interior design, esquisse en plein air, figure drawing and engraving at the Ecole d’Architecture, a beaux arts school in Strasbourg, France.
Leslie Laskey, an artist and protégé of American Bauhaus pioneer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, along with James Fitzgibbon, a colleague of Buckminster Fuller, were influential design studio professors. Williamson has studied the Classical Orders, taken figure drawing classes at the Fleischer Art Memorial in Philadelphia and 23rd Street Studio in San Francisco, woodworking classes in Mill Valley and printmaking at a Crown Point Press workshop in San Francisco.
Williamson’s work includes sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, mixed media collages and watercolor landscapes. Her award-winning interiors and lighting designs are nationally recognized, and her measured ink wash drawings of early 20th c. stone and iron facades are in the collection of the National Building Arts Center in Sauget, Illinois.
Williamson worked with Robert Venturi of VRSB Architects near Philadelphia and Joe Esherick of EHDD in San Francisco, before establishing her art and design practice in Mill Valley, CA.
Photograph by David Martinez
I gather and make objects - a humble lump of driftwood, a machined board, a hand-beaten ovoid clay blob - and create compositions. Happy cohabitations of the natural and human-shaped worlds.
A burst of energy or momentary calm can draw disparate elements into conversation. Various iterations may simmer for days and then collide in a seemingly effortless gesture. Not overworked. Not labored.
A pendant tree sculpture rotates slowly while a monotype landscape print reveals the embossed shadow of a handmade doily as it irreverently debuts in a new medium. A single bent wire allows a sculpture to hover and wave from its center of gravity.
What primordial message can be held by a time worn object?
Sherry
Photograph by David Martinez
Elizabeth Littman is a project designer specializing in high-end residential interiors. She has extensive experience designing custom rugs, sourcing healthy materials, and selecting vintage and antique furnishings. She has worked on a range of projects from a remodel of an Inverness A-frame cabin to custom interiors for a Napa vineyard compound.
Elizabeth also designs and fabricates jewelry, creates collages, and upcycled fashion. She is drawn to the process of reworking existing materials to create pieces that acknowledge and reference the past in a contemporary light.