Madeline Coven is an artist and fabricator from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now based in New York City, she works in sculpture and furniture. She studied sculpture at Pitzer College and has exhibited work in the US and abroad. Her work focuses on materiality and craft through wood, clay, metal, textiles, and resins, aiming to highlight the long traditions of these processes and the vast ways they can be interpreted and reimagined. Jenna Graziano is a Brooklyn based artist and furniture maker. Trained in fine woodworking, she combines wood with various material including glass, metal, ceramic, stone, and gems. She looks to showcase the beauty of material through a sense of childlike wonder. Her work with various materials allows her to use techniques such as steam bending, stack laminating, carving, sand casting, and kiln casting. Her focus on furniture derives from a fascination with the act of world-building and creating immersive environments.

What is your favorite design book?

Earthship Volume 1-3 By Michael Reynolds, published by Solar Survival Press. The Earthship Volumes are instruction manuals on how to build these "solar earth shelters", originally built in Northern New Mexico. The concept of the homes unite survivalists and those dedicated to sustainable living in an off-the-grid fantasy. The crude computer graphic models that describe how to build features of the homes are as compelling as the shelters themselves. Many piles of tires.

What is your favorite design object?

Vessel in the Shape of a Fish. This Roman or Byzantine vessel is from between the 4th and 6th century. It doesn't feel like a static object, but full of personal history and very alive, intimately treasured. From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.