Roy McMakin
Designer/artist
A graduate of the fine-arts program at UC San Diego, McMakin began to turn heads when he turned to designing furniture, often adjusting scale and mixing painted wood and patterned fabrics in visions that were outside the ordinary but still completely functional. His work became a favorite in arts circles, adorning offices at the Getty Museum and private homes. Meanwhile, the Seattle resident has also been making art, playfully addressing the forms of furniture in ways not completely functional. A bookshelf, for example, might also look like a table turned on its side, with legs extending forward, as if for an embrace.
