About

Hannah Vaughan is a designer and craftswoman, originally from Los Angeles. She currently runs her own design/build studio in the Hudson Valley, in Newburgh NY.  Studio projects range from large sculptural installations, furniture design to architectural works. Vaughan’s design has a direct material brutality to it, from crushed cars, chainsaw carved stumps to large rusted panels. Her works combine a primitive urgency with the infrastructure of our industrial landscape. 

Vaughan grew up in a creative household with a sculptor father and bookbinder mother, and started welding at the age of twelve. She developed her skills by studying at Oberlin College and the 3D design program at Cranbrook Academy of Art before starting her own one-woman design studio.

Vaughan’s work has been exhibited in the US and internationally. She designed an office in San Francisco,  exhibited at NY design week and her works can be found at Pavilion Gallery in Chicago.

Industriousness is primordial. Humans have always felt an impulse to build, craft, construct. Industrious cave women scrawled on their walls and their caves became homes. Marks like these are evidence of our existence, a means of expressing who we are and what we do. Proof that we were alive.