This Week on The Safari: Michael Aram

The Safari is a guided tour around the retail, brand and consumer landscape. Mortimer Singer and Kate Doerge interview the brightest and most innovative industry leaders who share how they are shaping and evolving the industry in the years to come.

The Artist Inspired by Nature: Michael Aram, Founder of Michael Aram

Trained as a painter, sculptor, and art historian, Michael has neatly applied his diverse background to the decorative arts. Lyrical and often witty, his work encompasses a wide range of media and reveals a rich and variant source of inspiration – nature, mythology, narrative storytelling, and purified form. Michael’s work is also a celebration of craft and age-old hand working traditions. It is the enduring fusion of these ideals – originality, narrative, and craftsmanship – that has become the hallmark of this gifted artist.

Fascinated with the richness of the living crafts tradition which he discovered on his first trip to Delhi, Michael set up a studio in India where he has created his work for over 30 years. Today, over 200 artisans work alongside him in his workshop where the same creative interaction between artist and artisan remains the source of every object that Michael makes.

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