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The most effective way to invite people into a building or landscape is to offer them comfort while they linger and engage the space. Furnishings are key to the success of public spaces.

Along with other furniture pieces designed by Tom Shiner, FAIA, the exhibition will feature new benches and a chair crafted from thermally modified ash for the outdoors.

About the Company M&LF^®

Museum and Library Furniture, LLC provides customers with simple, comfortable, and environmentally sustainable furniture that exhibits the highest standards of design and construction quality for use in museums, public spaces, and cultural environments. M&LF^® is responsible for custom-fabricated seating in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).

For more information about M&LF^®, please visit: http://www.mandlf.com/.

About the Designer Tom Shiner, FAIA

Over a career of more than 40 years, Tom Shiner has upheld and advanced the proposition that architects design furniture. Tom uses the skills and creativity of an architect to design and produce furniture that completes public architecture and stands on its own as art.

As an architecture studies freshman at Virginia Tech, Tom won a national, professional furniture design competition sponsored by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. His competition-winning chair was exhibited at the Smithsonian in 1971. Tom subsequently studied furniture design at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen.

Tom's furniture designs have been featured in Interior Design, The Washington Post, ArchitectureDC and other publications. Among other honors, his furniture was exhibited in Visions for a New Century at the National Building Museum and Windows on Industrial Design at Apartment Zero.

Credits

Organized by M&LF® in cooperation with AIA|DC for the Suman Sorg Gallery.

Supported in part by ABC Imaging.

Sponsored by Shape Inc.