Daniel Mack

 

 

Permanent Collection

• Yale Art Gallery, New Haven
• Museum of Fine Art, Boston
• Museum of Arts and Design, New York
• Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
• Hechinger Collection, Maryland

• Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington
• National Design Museum, New York
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• LongHouse Foundation Collection, Long Island

 

 

 

 

Authored Work

Books:

• The Casual Alchemist. free on this website, 2008-2022
• The Adirondack Chair. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008
• The Hammock. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008
• Rustic Garden Furniture and Accessories.with Thomas Stender
• Lark, 2004,   paper, 2006
• Log Cabin Living. Gibbs-Smith, 1999  out-of-print
• Simple Rustic Furniture: A Weekend Workshop with Dan Mack.
• Lark, 1999, paper, 2001
• The Rustic Furniture Companion. Lark, 1996, paper, 1998
• Making Rustic Furniture. Lark, 1992, paper, 1996

Articles:

• Thin Places, bi-monthly in DIRT Magazine, since 2011
• Borrowed Spaces, Metropolitan Home, December, 1997
• The Ballast for Life's Storms, The New York Times, August 29, 1996

Recognitions

• Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Art, since 1994
• Commission: Chicago Childrens Hospital, 1992
• Fellowships: NY Foundation for the Arts, 1986 and 1990,
  •                   Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, 1989

Selected Clients

• Centerbrook Architects, Essex, CT for Quinnipiac University, 2009
• The Bear Mountain Inn Renovation, 2008-2009
• The Rockwell Group, for Mohegan Sun, 2009
• Centerbrook Architects, Essex, CT for Ilany, 2005-2008
• Shope, Reno, Wharton, Greenwich, CT for Quaker Farms, 2001-2003
• James A. Thompson, Greenwich, CT for Robins Island, NY.1994
• Johnson Wanzenberg, NY for Twin Farms, Barnard, VT and others
• Centerbrook Architects, Essex, CT for Marsh Estates, 1991-1993
• Various Designers for Paul Simon, Richard Gere, Mary Tyler Moore, Tommy Tune, Robert Kushner, David Salle, Tommy Mottola, Jay and Linda Sandrich, Richard and Patricia Kiley, Pam Hill and Tom Wicker and many others

Selected Teaching, Curating

Current Member of the Faculty:

• The Omega Institute of Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck, NY. since 1997

Curator:

Melancholy, in preparation

The Shadow: to conceal and reveal. Warwick,NY  2004

• The Lure of the Rustic. Brookfield, CT   1998

Previous Teaching:

Stone Ridge Healing Arts, Stone Ridge, NY  

• Brookfield Crafts Center, Brookfield, CT
• The Crossing, Austin, TX.
• Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Rockport, ME
• Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
• Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
• The Newark Museum, Garden Lecture, Newark, NJ
• Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, NY
• National Design Museum, New York
• American Craft Museum, New York
• Fordham University, Department of Communications, New York
• The New School for Social Research, Media Studies Graduate Program, New York

Selected References in Books

• Studio Furniture of the Renwick Collection.Oscar Fitzgerald.Fox Chapel, 2008
• 500 Chairs. Lark Books. 2008
• Rustic Revisited. Ann O'Leary. Random House 2005.
• Adirondack Style. Ann O'Leary, Clarkson Potter, 1998
• Cabin Fever. Rachel Carley. Simon Schuster, 1998
• Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection. Pete Hamill, Abrams. 1996
• Centerbrook: Reinventing American Architecture.AIA Press. 1993/1997
• International Design Yearbook. Abbeyville Press. 1988
• 397 Chairs. The Architectural League. Abrams, 1988
• Adirondack Furniture. Craig Gilborn. Abrams. 1987

Personal

• Born: Rochester, NY, 1947
• Self-Taught artist/craftsman
• Studios in Warwick, NY

  BA, 1970, Sociology, Univ of Toronto

• MA, 1975, Media Studies, The New School
• EdD Work, 1977-80, Urban Studies, Fordham University. ABD

 

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