So, F Show for us has always been like this event that's on our calendars.
It's like a yearly thing and every year we want to do something to contribute to the
event that's fresh and new. And that always comes hand-in-hand with this energy of us
spending late nights in the shop. I mean, F Show is the reason that we started the
room studio. This Cleveland event is the reason why we feel compelled to always be
showing you stuff. So, what we had always wanted to do was bring you to another location
that the city doesn't bring people to. Abandoned buildings, new spaces, Asia Town Center here
is unbelievable. We like to have makers, so we like to have people that not only design
their own products, but make their own products. Ever since I went to the very first one as
just like an attendee, you know, the one at the battery park, it was like such good timing.
Like my friends, I had already graduated at that point, but my friends were just about
to graduate. It was just so exciting and we actually brainstormed our concept of second
ship that night. Redstone. Yeah, on the patio. So, we're all just there, super jazz, having
just gone to the furniture show. And that's where Second Ship was born, and so here we
are working together. And that's just like a little nutshell of the Cleveland furniture
scene. It is. It is. There's a lot of people we still haven't talked to and a lot of people
that still, I'm trying to get here and get to where to stay and be part of it. I try
to bring it all together. I try to keep all of us working together too. You know, I like
that we all help each other out. A lot of people, in Cleveland, are excited to see stuff made
by people from Cleveland. This is my fourth year doing up show. Craftsmen and designers,
just make furniture around here. People that come to the show might be encouraged to buy
locally. This is my first year at the up show, but I am a native Cleveland artist and I do
a lot of lighting and just started doing furniture. I love trinkets and weird things.
I used to own a skateboard shop, weld grind rails and stuff, and I made some furniture
for my apartment because I like this industrial style. And some of my friends took it and
were like, oh dude, you can just make more to keep making more. It's good to see a blend,
nice to see something that's real clean up against something that's like rustic and actually
rusty. I like to take the defects in wood and build around them. The furniture is really
just a conduit to show off the interesting nature of the wood. There's just been this
surge of furniture design, independent furniture designers in Cleveland. It's been really
neat to see and it really is a great community. In between up shows a lot of us interact quite
a bit and even feed off of each other. It's really nice.
