Practice & Process
Rooted in connection to the landscapes that surround him, Fitzhugh Karol's furniture practice is an extension of his sculptural work, driven by form, material, and the natural world. Furniture began for him with salvaged and street-found wood used to build seating for his own home, and honed through hands-on experience fabricating for the Brooklyn Home Company, his process has always embraced the improvisational and the organic.
Shape & Silhouette
His furniture often emerges directly from leftover materials in his sculpture studio – wood offcuts, scrap metal, and stone – reimagined into functional forms. Each piece reflects his vernacular of shapes – stairlike profiles, sawtooth edges, silhouettes drawn from both remembered and imagined landscapes. For him, furniture is not a departure from sculpture but a parallel path shaped by the same impulse: to explore combinations of material and form with a sculptor’s eye and a reverence for the landscape.
