Furbishure by unHeim Furniture

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 14.75 x 14.75 x .5 in. mounted in maple floater frame Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into his...

DESERT BURL SERIES (“OYSTERS”) ILLUMINATED SCULPTURE SCONCES Black nickel and silver plated bronze, LED lights, 2020, 9 x 11 x 2.5 in. The decorative metal plates mount over (2) t...

FOUND MINERALS SERIES (“MICA TABLE”) SCULPTURE Natural books of mica, sheets of manufactured mica, brass screws, old-growth redwood, two-way mirror, 2020, ...

SEA SPONGE SERIES (“TARDIGRADE”) NATURAL LIGHT Bronze-cast sea sponge, epidote, golden calcite, E12 light bulb, cloth-covered cord, 2019-20, 4.25 2.5 x 5 in.

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 15.125 x 14.75 x .5 in. mounted in maple floater frame Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into hi...

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 16.975 x 17.25 x 2.25 in. mounted in maple floater frame Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into ...

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 12 x 12 x 1.75 in. in contemporary maple frame Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into his creati...

2023, mica panels, mica powder & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 32 in. dia. x .5 in. Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into his creations for over...

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 14.25 x 14.25 x 1.75 in. mounted in maple floater frames Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into ...

2023, mica panels, mica powder & applied color powder coating on panel, 43 x 43 x .5 in. Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into his creations for over a decade. This ve...

DESERT BURL SERIES (“DUMBO SQUID”) NATURAL LIGHT Bronze-cast desert burl, fluorite, polished agate stones, LED lights, cloth-covered cord, 2019-20, 11.5 x 5 x 5 in. Micah Heimlic...

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 16.875x 11.125 x 2.25 in. mounted in maple floater frame Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into ...

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 18 x 18 x .5 in. mounted in maple floater frame. Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into his crea...

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 18 x 18 x .5 in. mounted in maple floater frame. Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into his crea...

SEA SPONGE SERIES (“HYDROTHERMAL VENTS”) NATURAL LIGHT Bronze-cast desert burl, Sonora Alandra double-terminated amethyst & ghost amethyst, milled aluminum base, LED lights, cloth-covered cord, 2019-20, 7.125 x 3.375 x 10 in. Micah Heimlich is a versatile artist and designer whose Furbishure collections further demonstrate his California Surrealist sensibilities. Heimlich uses naturally sourced materials to create unique and thoughtful pieces that combine the functional with the fantastic, resulting in far-flung product designs such as furniture, fittings, and fine art. Heimlich’s uncanny looking assemblages can even be described as “art sponges,” with whimsical surfaces that belie their deep subterranean sources from art, architecture, and design. While some Furbishure collections feature minerals such as mica and gemstones, others, like the recent “Oumuamua” series, incorporate organic remains such as sea sponges and desert burls. Heimlich makes colored metal casts of these found objects and then combines them to form lamps, standing “shadow pieces,” and other novelties. The resulting formal hybrids oscillate between fine art and Gebrauchskunst, on the one hand, and Baroque architecture and Bernard Palissy’s decorated grottos and ceramic dishes on the other. As with another of Heimlich’s recent collections, the “Sea Sponge Series,” these new “Oumuamua” pieces chime with the traditional Wunderkammer, which, like the Opificio Delle Pietre Dure in Florence, Italy, is dedicated to the curiosities and rarities of the natural world. For “Oumuamua,” Heimlich’s multistoried sources include Yves Klein’s Blue Sponge paintings and objects, Jean Dubuffet’s impish sponge figures like Le danseur, and Piero Manzoni’s Lines of Infinite Length traced by an ink-soaked sponge. Furthermore, by extending these tracings to the Dutch designer Marcel Wanders’s “Kaleido of Life” and other organically intertwined works, such as his 1997 “Sponge Vase...

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 11.125 x 17 x 2.25 in. mounted in maple floater frame. Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into hi...

INTERMICA (NIMBUS LIGHT #1) WALL SCONCE, 2023 InterMica® laminated Starphire glass with green, gold & black mica flakes, LED bulb 14 x 14 x 2.75 in. InterMica is an architectural s...

INTERMICA (NIMBUS LIGHT #2) WALL SCONCE, 2023 InterMica® laminated Starphire and mirror with amber, gold & black mica flakes, LED bulb 14 x 14 x 2.75 in. InterMica is an architectu...

SEA SPONGE SERIES (“RHINOCEROS”) NATURAL LIGHT Powder-coated bronze-cast sea sponge, red agate, raw uncut rubies, halite stalactite, leather-wrapped lead straps, antique bronze foot...

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 17.125 x 17.2 x .5 in. mounted in maple floater frame Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into his...

2023, mica panels, mica powder & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 24 x 24 x .5 in. mounted in maple floater frame. Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica ...

2022, mica panels & applied color powder coating on ceramic fiber paper, 15 x 15.5 x 2.25 in. mounted in maple floater frame. Designer Micah Heimlich has incorporated mica into his creations for over a decade. This versatile mineral has found its place as cladding for furniture, decorative windows...

INTERMICA (CAUSEWAY) SIDE TABLE, 2023 InterMica® glass: Laminated Starphire sublimation-printed glass with green mica flakes; Base: Polyester resin panel, 20 x 20 x 20 in. InterMic...

INTERMICA (CAUSEWAY) SIDE TABLE, 2023 InterMica® glass: Laminated Starphire glass with black mica flakes; Base: Polyester resin panel, 20 x 20 x 20 in. InterMica is an architectur...

FOUND MINERALS SERIES (“MICA CHAIR”) SCULPTURE “Mica’s Chair” is a STEEL frame clad with sheets of opalized MICA and adorned with a metallic leather seat. Signed by the designer in a...