Steven Goodman Designs

Steven Goodman was featured on HGTV's Modern Masters, November 16th 2003

Steven Goodman is proud to have won Best of Show, 3D Mixed Media

 State Street Area Art Fair, Ann Arbor Michigan

About Us

 As Marge Colborn, Design Editor of the Homestyle section of The Detroit News wrote: 
 "Local talent Steven Goodman concentrates on the details.  The hardware on a piece
of furniture can make an emphatic design statement."

Our product line has evolved over the years. 

What began as a jewelry studio is now an artistic venture into products for the home and office.  We design and handcraft the most unusual signs, mailboxes, wall cabinets,  hardware and works of art that you have ever seen.

We specialize in one-of-a-kind:

When I was a jeweler, I used natural, exotic materials, loving the beauty and warmth that hardwoods, minerals and metals brought to jewelry.  As beautiful as these materials were, it was difficult to appreciate them in such small pieces.

Bracelets  Pins

I have utilized these wonderful materials in my new work and am thrilled with the results.  The colors and textures are absolutely beautiful in these larger pieces.

A "signature" material that I use is fossilized ivory, which is the tusk of mastodon, mammoth and walrus that is thousands of years old.  It is excavated by Eskimos in Alaska during the warm summer months when the ground has thawed.  Each summer Eskimo families leave their villages and go to their summer camps along the Bering sea coast.  At the summer camps the Eskimos hunt, fish and dig for the ivory tusks, tools and artifacts that their ancestors left behind thousands of years ago.  These ancient ivory tusks and artifacts acquire beautiful colorations ranging from delicate gold to warm chocolate browns, orange, occasionally pink or gray as well as a rare splash of blue or green.  The colors are due to the minerals in the soil seeping into the ivory.  Mineralized ivory would actually be a more accurate description than fossilized ivory, as complete fossilization would require longer burial and would result in ivory very difficult to cut or carve.  This ancient ivory is unique, very beautiful and becoming scarce as the supply is non-renewable.

I also utilize exotic and domestic hardwoods, minerals like turquoise, pipestone, blue azurite and jet, shells like abalone and mother of pearl and metals - and create truly distinctive pieces of art.

Please look through my website to get an idea of the scope of my work. Call or email to discuss a custom project.

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