Pratt Institute

In the 2010/2011 school year, Pro­fes­sor Mark Goetz coor­di­nated a col­lab­o­ra­tion between stu­dents from his Grad­u­ate Fur­ni­ture Stu­dio and Tim Richartz’s Senior Fur­ni­ture Stu­dio with world renowned fur­ni­ture com­pany Cap­pellini. Stu­dents were encour­aged to for­mu­late their own unique vision of the future and then chal­lenged to mate­ri­al­ize this vision into a piece of furniture.

Pro­fes­sion­als from Cap­pellini pro­vided input and cri­tiques from sales, mar­ket­ing, and design points of view and selected what they con­sid­ered to be the finest exam­ples of the student’s work. Pieces were exhib­ited at the Cap­pellini Man­hat­tan show­room, as well as in the Inter­na­tional Con­tem­po­rary Fur­ni­ture Fair in an exhibit enti­tled “Per­pet­ual Motion”.