CHRIS LEHRECKE designs inspired works of art in the form of fine furniture. Although trained as a studio artist, Lehrecke has been designing and building furniture since 1982. While his early pieces were influenced by a number of enduring design traditions–African, Asian, Shaker, and Scandinavian–they consistently maintained a modern sensibility. A primitive quality remains evident in all the work, but so, too, does a sense of refinement in design and material.
Lehrecke’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum, which also awarded him its distinguished he received the Brooklyn Museum of Art/Modernism Young Designer Award in 1997. In addition to designing furniture and lighting for Ralph Pucci International, he has collaborated with other gifted artisans, among them E.R. Butler, Ted Muehling, and Gabriella Kiss.