Vivian Beer is a furniture designer/maker based in New England. Her sleek, abstracted metal and concrete furniture combines contemporary design, craft, and sculpture creating objects that alter expectations of and interface with our domestic landscape. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, MFA Boston, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Arts and Design and the cities of Portland ME, Cambridge MA and Arlington VA. She holds a Master’s degree in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art, has held many residencies including Penland School, Museum of Glass, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and was recently named a 2017 USA fellow.