Theodore Vass
B.1990

As an artist and furniture maker, my practice interconnects sculpture, design, and spatial thinking — exploring how objects define, frame, and respond to the environments they occupy. Each work begins as an inquiry into structure: how a line, a bend, or a composition can be expressed through material, and how such gestures can both divide and connect space.

Working primarily in wood, I use traditional processes such as steam-bending to explore the balance between precision and intuition. The resulting pieces are both functional and reflective — furniture that fulfils its purpose yet carries the presence of sculpture. Rather than designing fixed solutions, I work toward systems that remain responsive: adaptable forms that hold permanence and change in equal measure.

I understand furniture as a form of soft architecture — a way to reconfigure space through presence rather than construction. Each piece acts as a quiet participant in the life of a room, shaping how space feels, moves, and behaves. It offers a way to inhabit architecture differently — to invest in it, reimagine it, and make it one’s own.

My work is guided by proportion, material economy, and a respect for process. Each commission is made to endure, to adapt, and to gather meaning through use — objects conceived not as statements, but as continuations of the spaces and lives they belong to.