Furniture Design

2010

Professor, SCAD, Savannah, Georgia; principal, J. Robert Bazemore Designs Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina; product design studio B, interior design, Brayton International, High Point, North Carolina; project manager, Odell Associates, Charlotte, North Carolina; director of interiors, senior designer, Little Diversified Architecture & Consulting, Charlotte, North Carolina; senior designer, Odell Associates, Charlotte, North Carolina; director of interiors, The FWA Group, Charlotte, North Carolina; senior interior designer, TWUC Architects, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; interior designer, Clark Tribble Harris & Li, Charlotte, North Carolina; campus planning and design, interior designer/project manager, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina

Wall sconces, Boyd Lighting; table and desk collection, DarRan Furniture; custom carpet tile, Mannington Commercial Carpet; fabric collection, feature wall covering, DesignTex

Monsanto Doc Award, IBD Silver Award, Monsanto DOC Award, IBD Gold Award, IBD Best of Show, IBD Honorable Mention, IIDA Honorable Mention, Best of NEOCON Gold 2000 Brayton International Sidewalk Collection, NEOCON Editor's Choice Brayton International Sidewalk Collection 2000, DuPont Antron Award

Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership honor society, Sigma Alpha Epsilon national fraternity

Publications

• Advertising campaign, UltraTec Cable Railings, 2008
• Contract Design, Sidewalk Talk, Brayton International Sidewalk Collection, September 2000
• Contract Design, Brayton International Sidewalk Collection, August 2000
• Canadian Interiors, Brayton International Sidewalk Collection, May/June 2000
• Home Theater Interiors, Boyd lighting - Javelin Wall Sconce, Summer 1999
• NC Architecture (cover), McDevitt Street Bovis-Corporate Offices, Summer 1996
• Interiors & Source, McDevitt Street Bovis-Corporate Offices, May 1996

Presentations

• Community-Based Planning, Wake Forest School of Business Management, 1998
• The Business of Design, SCAD Furniture Summit, 2011

"Standing to provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace and, when executed well, it is a transformative experience for organizations. Being committed to creative excellence. Working in close partnerships with faculty and students. Believing that the solutions must be effective for the students and profitable for the university that provides the educational value. Planting the seeds of change about educational experiences. Harvesting together the best resources for the needs of the student experience. Protecting the resources we all value."

• FURN 201 Introduction to furniture
• FURN 232 Drawing/presentation for furniture
• FURN 238 Furniture and Spatial composition
• FURN 360 Professional practices in furniture design
• FURN 410 Design Studio: Advanced Furniture design
• FURN 425 Design Studio: Senior Studio
• FURN 779t Graduate teaching Internship

jrobertbazemore.com

2001

Child care supervisor, Hephzibah Home for Children, Oak Park, Illinois; educational assistant, Jornada Elementary School, Las Cruces, New Mexico; project supervisor, JTC Construction, Cleveland, Ohio; promotional liaison, School of Design, SCAD, Savannah, Georgia; professor of furniture design, SCAD, Savannah, Georgia

Designed and installed exhibits at ICFF, NeoCon, Milan Furniture Fair, SOFA Chicago

ICFF Editors Award, Design School, 2004

Member, The Furniture Society; American Society of Furniture Designers

"Amplification of knowledge and passion through collaboration."

• FURN 308 Design Studio: Electronic Furniture Design
• FURN 742 Directed Research in Furniture Design
• FURN 754 Directed Studies I
• FURN 764 Directed Studies II
• FURN 770 Professional Practices in Furniture Design
• FURN 790 Furniture Design MFA Thesis

"Design can change the world. Let's make it happen."

1996

Instructor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts; instructor/assistant manager/manager ,The Nemasket Group, Fairhaven, Massachusetts; designer/craftsman, Middlebury, Connecticut

Big Picture Show, Pei Ling Chan gallery, Savannah, Georgia; Craft Transformed-Invitational, University of Massachusetts, New Bedford, Massachusetts; Haystack Faculty Exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine

"Best of Show," Ritz Theatre Gallery, Brunswick, Georgia

With-IT - Member Board of Governors, The Furniture Society, American Society of Furniture Designers, Sustainable Furniture Council

Articles

• Joanne McQuillan Weeks, Studies in Wood: Function and Form
• The Standard Times (Massachusetts), Feb. 12, 1995, Sec. D1, Form/Function
• The Standard Times (Massachusetts), March 17, 1996, Sec. E5

Presentations

• Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
• Art Educators Forum, Savannah College of Art and Design
• Rabun Gap Preparatory School

"Colleagues and students."

• FURN 201 Design Studio: Introduction to Furniture
• FURN 241 Design Studio: Applied Universal Design
• FURN 306 Furniture Practices: Methods in Plastics
• FURN 320 Accessories for Living
• FURN 410 Design Studio: Advanced Furniture Design
• FURN 425 Design Studio: Senior Studio
• FURN 706 Exploration in Plastics
• FURN 710 Issues in Furniture Design
• FURN 718 Furniture Studio I: Conceptual Studies
• FURN 738 Furniture Studio II : Contextual Studies
• FURN 742 Directed Research in Furniture Design
• FURN 748 Furniture Studio III: Material Investigations
• FURN 749 Furniture Design M.A. Final Project
• FURN 754 Directed Studies I
• FURN 764 Directed Studies II
• FURN 790 Furniture Design M.F.A. Thesis

1997

Twenty-four years of teaching experience including founding Furniture Design programs at Mesa Community College, San Diego, California, and Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California. Thirteen years as owner and principal designer/craftsman of JM Pierson and Company Fine Contemporary Furniture Makers, San Diego, California; associate designer/craftsman at Gemmel and Associates Furniture, San Diego, California

Member of Conference Steering Committee for the Furniture Society Annual National Conference in Savannah, Georgia, hosted by SCAD Furniture Department, 2004

Presenter at the Annual Niche Awards Ceremony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006; special commendation by San Diego City Council "as an individual who exemplifies the depth and talent of San Diego Artisans and for his contribution to art appreciation in San Diego"; notable exhibitions: Congressive Design Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, Georgia; Allied Craftsmen of San Diego, Trios Gallery, San Diego, California; Wood, Steel, Glass and . . . Clay?!, Faith Nightingale Gallery, San Diego, California; Decade 5, Calhoun Gallery, San Diego, California; Craftsmanship in Metal and Wood, Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, California; Cross Grain: A Survey in Wood, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California; In the Form of Furniture, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California; California Crafts XIII, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; Marietta College Crafts National, Marietta College Gallery, Marietta, Ohio

Past vice president and board member, Allied Craftsmen of San Diego (a juried professional organization), The Furniture Society

Books: Tables, Fine Woodworking Design Book Seven, Taunton Press; Tables, Fine Woodworking Design Book Four, Taunton Press; Fine Woodworking Design Book Three, Taunton Press; Joinery: Shaping and Milling, Taunton Press; Chairs, Fine Woodworking Design Book Two, Taunton Press; Instruments and Tools, Fine Woodworking Biennial Design Book, Taunton Press

Magazines: Bent Lamination by John Pierson, Fine Woodworking; Five Woodworkers, San Diego Home/Garden; Lead Toward the Future, Furniture Studio: Focus on Materials, The Furniture Society; Contemporary Classics, San Diego Home/Garden; A Balance Between Design and Craftsmanship, Art of California; Extension Tables: Their Design and Construction, Fine Woodworking; Art is Put on the Table, San Diego Union

"I am inspired by motivated and energetic students. I am also inspired by art, design, literature and music that have withstood the test of time."

• FURN 200 Materials and Techniques I
• FURN 236 Materials and Techniques II
• FURN 323 Prototype Fabrication
• FURN 410 Design Studio: Advanced Furniture Design
• FURN 425 Design Studio: Senior Studio
• FURN 762 Experimental Wood Fabrication

"I strive to integrate the skills, experience and values of my life in a distilled expression of functional objects."

1999

Design principal, Sottile & Sottile, Urban Design and Civic Architecture, Savannah, Georgia; urban research fellow, Florence, Italy; city architect, City of Beaufort, South Carolina; professor of architecture, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia; apprentice, John C. LeBey, FAIA, Architect, Savannah, Georgia

Establishing Sottile & Sottile as an international, award-winning urban design and civic architecture practice with its primary focus on civic design and master planning, emphasizing historic research, urban analysis and community-wide engagement. Most recently, Sottile led the design of the new SCAD Museum of Art, a historic preservation project that revived the freight sheds of the Central of Georgia Railroad complex, a National Historic Landmark and the only extant antebellum railroad complex in the United States.

• National Council of Arts Administrators, Art Leadership Award, 2011
• AIA National Honor Award for Urban Design, 2010, 1998
• Congress for the New Urbanism, Charter Award, 2009
• Government Finance Officers of the United States, 2009
• AIA Georgia Honor Award, 2008, 2005, 1996
• Georgia Department of Community Affairs, 2008, 2005
• Historic Savannah Foundation, Preservation Award, 2008, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000
• American Planning Association, 2008, 2005, 2004
• Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, 2003
• USA Today, Top 100 Academics in the Nation, 1998

Preservation magazine: "New Life for an Old Depot: Remnants of an 1853 railroad depot contribute to a major expansion of a Savannah Museum"

SCAD press release:

• SCAD names Christian Sottile as dean, School of Building Arts

American Institute of Architects; National Council of Architectural Registration Boards; National Council of Arts Administrators; National Charrette Institute; Veritas Academy Rhetoric School; Savannah Development and Renewal Authority; Creative Coast Alliance; Congress for the New Urbanism; American Planning Association

• TEDx Conference, Recovering Humanity in the Built Environment
• China, Jiujiang City, US Planning and Historic Preservation
• Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, The New City
• Georgia Conservancy, Blueprints for Successful Communities
• New York Project for Public Spaces, Livability Forum
• Urban Land Institute, The Next Big Ideas
• United States Urban Forestry Program, Savannah's East River
• American Planning Association, National Conference, Human Design Principles
• International Making Cities Livable Conference, Design Districts
• National Public Radio, History of Ellis Square
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Sustainable Urbanism

"To engage in discourse about our collective future, to dissolve perceived boundaries between design disciplines and to re-establish art as the shared language of the built environment. The future is the city. It is the place where all design disciplines come together and where all design disciplines are needed at the same time. At SCAD, we are doing nothing less than preparing students in the School of Building Arts to be the designers of the new city."

• ARLH 306 Reading Urban Form
• ARCH 302 Architecture Design Studio II
• ARCH 303 Architecture Design Studio III
• ARCH 421 Advanced Architectural Presentation
• ARCH 765 Emerging Urban Issues
• INDS 321 Interior and Exterior Illustration

"Make it so beautiful it breaks their hearts; fills their minds with wonder; and awakens their soul to awe."

2009

Principal, Jenkins Wax USA; furniture builder, Guenther Wood Group Inc., Savannah, Georgia; furniture conservator, McLean's Refinishing Inc., Athens, Georgia; packaging designer, Reid Packaging Inc., Tucker, Georgia; machinery knife designer, T G Wolstenholme and Sons Ltd./TGW International, Sheffield, England / Cincinnati, Ohio; Ferrari club liaison, race and special events planning, F.A.F. Ferrari Inc., Tucker, Georgia (currently Ferrari of Atlanta, Roswell, Georgia)

Designed a line of low production, high quality furniture pieces for a boutique hotel chain; performed conservation and repair work on antique furniture valued at well over $1 million and worked on the largest privately held collection of mid-century Modern and Art Deco furniture in the world

Member, Aigroeg Society

"A passion for the more recent evolution of furniture design and how the design process expands with innovation and technology."

• FURN 120 Survey of Furniture Design
• FURN 200 Materials and Techniques I
• FURN 330 Exploration in Soft Furnishings
• FURN 333 Furniture Practices: Welding
• FURN 335 Design Studio: Creative Furnishings Development
• FURN 710 Issues in Furniture Design
• FURN 718 Furniture Studio I: Conceptual Studies
• FURN 732 Evolution of Furniture Design
• FURN 738 Furniture Studio II: Contextual Studies
• FURN 769 Soft Furnishings