About KHEM Studios

KHEM Studios was founded by Erik Guzman and Kari Lorenson — both trained sculptors with graduate degrees from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and combined decades of professional practice across fine art, fabrication, design, and academic instruction.

Before furniture, they built a career making art. Erik's own sculpture has been exhibited internationally and reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, artnet, and The Brooklyn Rail. As a fabricator, he has produced works for contemporary artists now held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Broad, and other major institutions. Together, they directed a Digital Fabrication Residency Program and founded Art Design Fabrication, a full-service art fabrication company.

Furniture was the studio's founding discipline. Our hardwood cutting boards and kitchen objects — recognized by The New York Times, Martha Stewart, Food & Wine, and Oprah's Favorite Things — extended that material practice to a broader audience.

Every piece in the collection is an original design, developed in-house and built to order from solid American hardwoods in our New York studio. We use precision engineering for structural accuracy, then hand-assemble and hand-finish every piece. The same thinking that shaped sculpture for museum collections now shapes furniture for living and dining spaces.

We do not reproduce historical forms. We do not work in veneers or composites. We design slowly, produce intentionally, and build to last.

For trade inquiries, visit our Trade page.