Justin Bailey Design

Justin Bailey is an American designer and maker who develops furniture by bending, folding and joining, looking for moments of freedom and gesture inside the constraints of material and structure. He works across wood, steel, aluminium and Corian, and each project begins with physical tests: how a material can be manipulated, then how those elements can be joined.

Connections and details are left visible rather than concealed, so that structure, assembly and gesture shape the identity of the object, from the Drift and Span benches to the Lasso chair, the Polyp series and the Murmur mirror. Bailey is Associate Professor of Art and Design at Indiana University, and has shown at WantedDesign NYC, SaloneSatellite and Stockholm Furniture Fair’s Greenhouse, winning a Bronze at the International Design Awards and a LIT Lighting Design Award.