Reviews & Ratings for Gallery Of Functional Art

A jumble of arty furniture, jewelry and furnishings that contains many gems.

by Contributor

The Scene
This gallery specializes in art that you can use: the lamps actually work and the elaborately carved and colored pieces of furniture are meant to be taken home and put to use. There are two sections to the space. The first is the gallery, where works by single artists are displayed, and the second, through a wooden door inlaid with chunks of colored glass, is the store, a jumble of items that evoke the giddy excitement of a garage sale-you never know what treasures await.

The Goods
The gallery exhibits rotate about every two months, and the stock in the store changes slightly less regularly. But there is a core group of artists and artwork, including John Suttman's fantastic, gravity-defying furniture and Daniel Saddler's kitschy lamps.