The Female Design Council proudly presents a special member installation at the 2025 Salon Art + Design, showcasing the extraordinary talent of fourteen FDC members in the iconic South Hall of the Park Avenue Armory.
Many thanks to Salon Art + Design for supporting this celebration of women in design.
Ivana Brenner / Ceramics
Ivana Brenner is a Buenos Aires-born, Brooklyn-based artist who develops her own techniques in both paint and ceramics while flirting with the abject by contrasting precious materials like gold with masses of brute, humble, mud-appearing clay. Her work is abstract yet bodily and sensual, evoking a fleshiness and fertility in an attempt to give anima to inert matter. She is showing two ceramic sculptures in conversation: "Untitled (Cream & Tears)" and "Untitled (Blue Gold Drop)" (pictured above) made respectively in white stoneware and blue porcelain, with 22k gold luster.
For sales inquiries please contact: lora@glomodern.com
Marion Cage McCollam / Lighting
The rigor of architecture and the opulence of jewelry meet in a light fixture by architect and jewelry designer, Marion Cage McCollam, principal of New Orleans-based design studio, Marion Cage. The “Peak Sconces” are the studio’s first foray into lighting design and follow on the heels of the designer’s award-winning collection of cabinetry hardware. The bronze sconces are hand fabricated with a satin finish and available in left and right facing models.
For sales inquiries please contact: info@marioncage.com
Caroline Chao / Lighting
Caroline Chao of From: C is an award-winning furniture designer and architect whose work is a study on perception and viewing. Caroline creates objects and spaces that spark curiosity, encouraging us to more deeply understand our physical environment. “Little Cosmos”, has mirrored lenses and a small lightbulb, reflecting both the viewer's relationship with the immediate room, while also placing the viewer's reflection in a composition of spherical forms recalling cosmic and planetary elements.
For sales inquiries please contact: carolinechao13@gmail.com
Katherine Forst / Mosaics
Katherine Forst is a master mosaic craftsperson and one of the few artisans to have trained in the Italian tradition based on Byzantine mosaic of the 5th and 6th century. "Untitled" is a reproduction of a Roman mosaic fragment from the ancient city of Zeugma in modern-day Turkey, composed of hand-cut stone mosaic on panel.
For sales inquiries please contact: katherine@kforstmosaics.com
Robbie Heidinger / Ceramics
Robbie's work is very touchable. It satisfies the urge to feel something attractively “natural,” and more seductively, rewards the user by connecting them with a very potent and tightly focused abstraction of the tissues and structures of organic life. This psychosomatic connection occurs during the act of using the piece—unleashing the potencies of her expression. The "Large Butterfly Lichen Vessel" by Robbie Heidinger is inspired by nature's life-giving power, translating natural forms and finishes into a message calling for action against the climate crisis.
For sales inquiries please contact: claypoetics@gmail.com
Dana Hurwitz / Glass
"Hitch Water Vase" and “Hitch Waterford Bowl” (pictured above) by Dana Hurwitz of Bond Hardware embodies an elegant collision between tradition and subversion — where fine vintage crystal meets the raw materiality of contemporary industrial hardware. Through Bond’s intervention, these pristine forms are hand-drilled and grafted with the brand’s signature stainless-steel Hitch Ring—a motif rooted in the mechanics of restraint, connection, and strength. In piercing the crystal, Hurwitz transforms an object of passive beauty into one of tension and agency—where ornamentation becomes assertion.
For sales inquiries please contact: dana@bond-hardware.com
Sylvia Lee/ Lighting
“Isla" from "The Lantern Collection" by Sylvia Lee is a piece created in tribute to family, light, and heritage. Inspired by traditional Chinese lanterns, Sylvia’s handblown and double sandblasted glass tabletop lights feature delicate lattice and woven patterns which represent both an intimate exploration of cultural symbolism and personal memory, rituals and milestones. The collection is made in The Goodman Studio, Sylvia’s modern glass design and fabrication studio based in Toronto, Canada, a world leader creating handmade installations, lighting, vessels and architectural glass for luxury projects worldwide.
For sales inquiries please contact: sylvia@thegoodmanstudio.com
Kiara Matos/ Mirror
"Flora Mirror" by Kiara Matos is made of porcelain, glass, 16K gold luster and named for the Roman goddess of flowers, spring, abundance and fertility. The "Flora" collection is a body of work where a riot of floral motifs, made on the potter’s wheel, floods over walls, mirror frames, and decorative objects. Kiara is a Venezuelan ceramicist who moved to New Haven, CT after many years in Caracas as part in a ceramics collective called “Grupo de Turgua”. After 25 years perfecting her craft in the trade you can now find her expanding her extensive glaze palette, inspired by colorful Venezuela, in her studio and storefront in downtown New Haven, CT.
For sales inquiries please contact: kiaramatos@me.com
Abby Modell/ Glass
"Silver Mirror Moon” (pictured above) and “Moon Mountain" by Abby Modell are part of a cosmic landscape which captures the beauty and mystery of the lunar surface. Organic sculptural objects finished in shiny and matte surfaces create an imaginary terrain. Abby’s work is inspired by galactic formations of ultra-luminous swirling stars with their infinite dimension and ever-changing rotation focusing on transparencies, refracted light and modern forms. Design, color, shape, texture and light merge together to reveal the intricate subtlety and beauty of the universe throughout her collection.
For sales inquiries please contact: abbymodelldesign@gmail.com
Erica Sellers/ Glass
Made in handblown glass and hand patinated white brass, "RELIQUARY FOR THE DECONSECRATED" by Erica Sellers of Studio SII is a work that resembles skin pierced and hooked with cast, patinated white brass and chains. It's reminiscent of a reliquary: a nod to ritual and how one can embody their truest selves through the most extreme forms of adornment. Inspired by contemporary body modification, this transformative piece was meticulously handblown with an overlay of three colorways, creating a unique ombre effect. While hot, the glass is shaped into a custom mold that resembles a torture device and, along with unconventional tools like stainless chainmail and surgical steel suspension hooks, imparts a distinct yet inviting form.
For sales inquiries please contact: erica@studiosii.com
Gabrielle Shelton / Metalwork Sculpture
"Because I Do", "In This House That I Call Home," "Lifeguard," and "Lovers Rock" (pictured above) by Gabrielle Shelton are a collection of brass and aluminum sculptures which speak to a longing for stillness — a wish for a quiet room, a space untouched by noise or pain. The smaller stair form traces the walls, hallways, and secret passages we move through within the labyrinth of our lives, searching for moments of peace within the noise.
For sales inquiries please contact: info@sheltonstudiosinc.com
Sunshine Thacker / Ceramics
Sunshine Thacker creates artisan architectural ceramics at scale — textural murals exploring the vagaries of glaze, dimensional tile tableaus, fireplace surrounds, ceramic furniture and lighting. "No Soup for You" is a soup tureen so outsized it’s at odds with functionality; it carries the volume of memories and work required to reclaim yourself. This imaginative work embodies a fateful day when the desire to be of service went terribly south, challenging notions that those who love you aren’t necessarily safe for you. Put that in your crock and cook it!
For sales inquiries please contact: sunshine@sunshinethacker.com
Sophia Wallace / Sculpture
"Swan Series" by Sophia Wallace draws inspiration from the grace of swans in motion, the unfolding of orchid buds, and the geometric emergence of succulents. Continuing her project to create a new iconography of the clitoris, the series translates organic gestures of growth and vitality into sculptural form. This work is an open edition of cast sculptures in stoneware and terracotta that draw inspiration from the natural world. Through this synthesis of natural morphology and feminist symbolism, Wallace expands upon the aesthetics of sensuality, embodiment, and renewal.
For sales inquiries please contact: sophiawallaceartist@gmail.com
Cym Warkov/ Lighting
"Topography Series 2.0 Version 1" by Cym Warkov is a sculptural light that invites a contemplative dialogue between shape and function. Constructed from porcelain, stoneware, and natural mineral pigments, its layered, topographical surface subtly plays with light and shadow, revealing the intricate beauty of natural rhythms. Cym crafts refined ceramic vessels and lights where architectural precision meets the sensuality of the human form. Raised in a Zen Buddhist community of artists and thinkers, she draws on a childhood studio where simplicity, restraint, and creative inquiry have shaped her sensibility.
For sales inquiries please contact: info@cymwarkovceramics.com