Camp Copeland Studio

Alyssa and Drew Kail founded Camp Copeland Studio in 2015 to improve everyday lives through considered design and intentional living. Inspired by Japanese minimalism, Scandinavian design, and the Swedish concept of “lagom” (meaning “just enough”), Camp Copeland handcrafts mindful home goods and decor in kiln-formed glass and wool. Through the Green Leap program, they are incorporating reclaimed textile and material waste for a system of sound-dampening decorative wall art panels.

Emmanuelle Ceramics

Since 2020, Monmade has featured Emmanuelle Wambach’s everyday collection of ceramic dinnerware and homeware featuring lace and floral motifs. Inspired by her mother’s love of flowers and gardening, Emmanuelle combines different texturing, carving, glazing, and under-glazing techniques to create slab-built pieces. Now with Green Leap, we’re excited to launch Emmanuelle’s first lighting products that embrace biophilic design principles—that is, our inherent need to embrace nature in the modern built environment.

Jessica Alpern Brown

Jessica Alpern Brown’s primary work as a paper cutter now informs her multidisciplinary art and design practice and exploration of interior design products. Her current work features a variety of materials from found objects and organic matter to resin and acrylic, including her Contour Discs which premiered with our Monmade x CDCP Collection in 2021. Jessica’s inherently sustainable mindset informs her newest Light Lines pendants developed through Green Leap. The colorful creations maximize material use and minimize waste by using cut-offs from her Contour Discs.

OtherWondersMFG

OtherWondersMFG is a design and fabrication studio with a focus on sustainability. Owner Carl Bajandas works with wood, metal, and other materials to create custom railings, panels, and much more. Using digital design and fabrication techniques, Carl now expands his practice and is focused on the production of his line of studio furniture. The collection explores intentional design and simplicity through functional, durable pieces, including seating and tables.

Reimagined Recycling

Reimagined Recycling is a Pittsburgh-based program and creative studio that collects #4 and #5 plastics for shredding and repurposing into new plastic products including home and design goods. Established and operated by Ashley McFarland, this non-profit organization processes and reuses materials that would otherwise be excluded from mainstream recycling programs and destined for the landfill. With Green Leap, Ashley is experimenting with larger products suited for the built environment like floating shelving in assorted colorways.

Safran Everyday

Safran Everyday was created out of artist Maia Leppo’s desire to provide simple, beautiful, functional objects including jewelry and homewares. Inspired by botanicals and architecture, Maia brings her fresh sense of design to expand into homeware like plant holders, towel holders, and hooks. With Green Leap, she expands Safran Everyday’s product offering with a modular green wall system featuring bold shapes made from powder-coated steel, the same inherently sustainable materials used throughout her existing collection.

SPACAPAN

SPACAPAN is a woman-owned and operated artisanal glass company. With repeating forms designed to make a subtle statement, SPACAPAN lighting reflects the minimalism of artist Margaret Spacapan’s fine art sculpture. SPACAPAN’s assortment of glass pendants and custom chandeliers are hand-blown, cut, ground, and polished for long-lasting beauty and durability. With Monmade Margaret launched the Wallace Pendants, and now with Green Leap she introduces Reilluminate, a collection of minimalist pendants made from reimagined recycled glass bottles.

Temper and Grit

Temper and Grit is a multimodal design and fabrication studio specializing in creating custom solutions for the built environment. From furniture to fixtures, Temper and Grit’s thoughtfully executed and well-made products adorn residential and commercial spaces throughout Pittsburgh, including the TRYP Hotel Lawrenceville. Designer Nicholas Volpe combines woodworking, metalworking, and blacksmithing to create innovative designs with integrity. Now with Green Leap, Nick introduces a standardized contemporary wall cabinet sustainably made from Bamboo plywood and manufactured by regional partner Eisenwood.

Tenderwerks

Pati Beachley is a Pittsburgh-based, non-binary sculptor. Her work mixes masculine and feminine attributes forcing a dialogue into gendered text and imagery—she adds a queer narrative by casting carpet and fibrous materials. As owner and designer of Tenderwerks, her Pittsburgh-based studio and foundry, Pati creates pieces celebrating the pleasure of everyday, useful objects that transcend the ordinary. With Green Leap, Pati applies her unique aesthetic to functional, sustainable products. She is developing collections of artful hardware featuring repurposed carpet textures cast from recycled aluminum truck components.