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Shannon
Shapiro was born in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, grew up in Glencoe, Illinois and studied
fine art at the University of Texas at Austin
(1990-1993). Shannon apprenticed in design under her
mentor Arthur Andersson with the firm Moore
Andersson Architects, then received her MFA at
California Institute of Arts in 1996 with a 1 year
scholarship program at Glasgow School of Art. Moth
Design was founded in 2000. Shannon has lived
and worked in Los Angeles since 1993.
Philosophy
For
me, the opportunity and challenge of good design is
maintaining a balance between the functional and
conceptual. There is always great excitement in
designing something I haven’t seen before. With
every piece I look for that fragility between what
is practical and emotional; romantic and real by
creating beauty out of intentional imperfection. The
challenge is to reproduce this “imperfection” at
heirloom quality by hand every time. While nature
and European modernism fuel the inspiration of form,
art informs the surface: crystal covered branches,
powder coated coral, plaster infused cotton over
steel. Never overlooked is my intent for the pieces
to function pragmatically and to embrace a sense of
classicism and tradition.
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