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Galerie Magazine
Kelly Wearstler Opens Her Home to a New Wave of Experimental Designers

Sam Klemick engineers Douglas Fir so timber folds like daintily draped fabric.

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10.20.2025
For "Again, Differently," the inaugural exhibition at Kelly Wearstler's new gallery Side Hustle.
Financial Times
The Unsinkable Kelly Wearstler

LA woodworker Sam Klemick has modelled a side table, chair, floor lamp and mirror after a vintage Emanuel Ungaro gown in Wearstler’s closet. The collection, called Hollywood, is made from reclaimed Douglas fir

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10.10.2025
Hollywood Side Table by Sam Klemick for Side Hustle.
An Interior
Our favorite designs from COLLECTIBLE New York 2025

A bow dons the back of this dining chair in a celebration of excessive joy and whimsy. Designer Sam Klemick pushes wood to look draped and molded like garments.

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09.16.2025
The Trumpet Dining Chair lends wood the movement of clothing. Photo by Simon Leung.
Cultured
There Are Countless Memorable Pieces on Offer at Collectible. These Six Stuck With Comedian Julio Torres.

This month, Water Street Projects is playing host to Collectible’s second-ever New York edition.

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09.05.2025
The Ribbon Side Table, a trompe-l'œil edition of one.
Sight Unseen
For New York Design Week, We Surrounded Ourselves With Friends for a Sight Unseen Collection x Petra Exhibition

If there’s one true thing we’ve learned in 20 years of working in the design journalism, it’s that design fairs are better with friends.

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05.28.2025
The Mini Orb Bench provides compact, spherical seating with a low profile.
Dezeen
Six seats with contemporary frames and decadent floral fabrics at NYCxDesign

Los Angeles designer Sam Klemick upholstered her Bell Chair in a Pierre Frey mustard yellow brocade with bright florals and butterflies for the Petra Hardware x Sight Unseen Collection exhibition, which took place at the Host on Howard showroom in SoHo.

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05.23.2025
The Heirloom Bell Chair sets bright floral upholstery on a flared timber frame.
Dezeen
NYCxDesign 2025 material trends to look out for

One of the early trends we've seen is objects made of ceramics, paper or wood that are shaped to resemble fabric elements like curtains or bows.

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05.16.2025
The Ribbon Side Table, the Mini Orb Bench, and the Heirloom Bell Chair staged for Site Unseen at the AvroKos Host on Howard event space. Photo by Krista Schlueter.
Livingetc
To Art Basel Miami 2024 and Beyond — 8 Surreally Beautiful Installations Not to Miss in Miami This Week

My admiration for Sam Klemick's exaggeratedly voluminous, comforting furniture is tangible in the profile I wrote on her work as part of our emerging designers series in August.

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12.04.2024
The Big Wooden Bell Chair II renders fabric’s folds in solid wood. Photo by Brian Guido.
Hypebeast
Sam Klemick's Wooden Chairs Evoke Surreal Softness at Design Miami

For Objective Gallery‘s exhibition at Design Miami 2024, the Shanghai and New York-based gallery contemplated the title All design is contemporary, if it’s alive.

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10.12.2024
A pair of Big Wooden Bell Chairs at Objective Gallery, New York. Photo by Brian Guido.
Dezeen
Haworth debuts furniture designed for a circular economy at NeoCon 2024

LA-based knitwear and clothing designer Sam Klemick created a communal seating structure named Play Station that utilises geometric shapes and is made from salvaged Douglas Fir and dead stock fabrics.

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07.09.2024
A custom-made communal seating piece crafted from salvaged Douglas Fir and deadstock fabrics.
California Home Design
The Visionary

Klemick handcrafts pieces in her L.A. workshop from salvaged and locally sourced lumber using the circular method.

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07.05.2024
Sam Klemick in her studio.
Dezeen
Ten scene-setting independent design studios in Los Angeles

Sam Klemick works mostly with douglas fir salvaged from demolition sites around the city.

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06.06.2024
The Orb Bench is a study in tension between rise and fall.
Elle Decor
Wood Furniture Is Finally Cool Again, Thanks to a Group of Up-and-Coming Designers

No, your eyes are not deceiving you: This surreal chair has a carved wood sweater casually draped over its back.

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04.20.2024
The Sweater Chair, commissioned by 2LG Studio for London Design Fair 2023.
Vogue Australia
All the design highlights from Miami Art Week 2023

An Alcova group show entitled Uncharted explores new realms of design for the six creative studios involved (Caleb Ferris, Forma Rosa Studio, NJ Roseti, Studio Sam Klemick).

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12.14.2023
The Big Bell Chair in situ at Miami Art Week 2023.
Sight Unseen
American Design Hot List 2023

A former fashion designer, Klemick transitioned to furniture two years ago after falling in love with wood-working and realizing she could use

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12.06.2023
The Ribbon Side Table, a trompe-l'œil edition of one.
The New York Times
A Restless Design Show Hops to Miami

Ms. Klemick, the Miami native, only recently turned to furniture design after years of working in the notoriously wasteful fashion industry.

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12.05.2023
The Big Bell Chair in ebonized finish and black linen. Photo by Brian Guido.
Dezeen
Jeff Martin and Sam Klemick create furniture with an "alternate ending"

The plump furniture of LA-based Sam Klemick sits alongside the tiled-covered joinery of Vancouver-based Jeff Martin in an exhibition at Objective Gallery in New York.

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08.25.2023
Please Sit for the Alternate Ending brings together the work of Sam Klemick and Jeff Martin.
Luxe Interiors + Design
6 Talented Makers Who Are Having Fun With Furniture

After years working in fashion, Sam Klemick turned to woodworking as a creative outlet.

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07.27.2023
Sam Klemick with a selection of her works. Photo by Christina Gandolfo.
Elle Decor
A Sustainable New Furniture Collection That’s Inspired by Margiela and the French New Wave

Fashion and furniture designer Sam Klemick’s new line, Collection Two, began with a film recommendation from a friend.

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07.11.2023
Nap Chair, Bell Side Table, and Bell Chair. Photo by Brian Guido.
The New York Times
Color, Craft and Comfort at Milan Design Week

A series of new seating pieces inspired by slumber was showcased by the Los Angeles upstart Otherside Objects, founded by Sam Klemick, a fashion

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06.11.2022
Otherside Objects’ collection of garden seating, featuring the Nap Chair and the Orb Bench crafted from salvaged wood. Photo by Jonathan Hokklo.
Architectural Digest
A 495-Square-Foot Former Artist’s Studio in L.A. Goes From Empty to Enlightened

As unlikely as it sounds, it was a Craigslist posting plus a FaceTime with a friend that sealed the deal for Sam Klemick, founder of Otherside Objects, for her new apartment in Los Angeles.

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10.25.2021
Sam Klemick at her desk.
Surface
Designer of the Day: Sam Klemick

After working for ten years in corporate fashion design, Sam Klemick discovered a newfound passion in using a lathe to sculpt otherworldly furniture in new and deadstock materials.

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10.05.2021
Sam Klemick in her studio.