“Craft is the new luxury”
- Kate Swanson
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This new collectible design gallery is looking to put Vermont on the map - 2025
“Each item – from ceramic vessels to hand-crafted furniture – embodies how the artists see Vermont. ‘There’s no single, anchored "Vermont look", says Swanson, ‘and when people ask for a “Vermont house”, it invites conversation rather than certainty. [Vermont] is a place that responds to the environment and embraces those who want to belong,' she adds. 'Even after 14 years away, it's where I feel most at home.”
Celebrate Craft + Integrity At Kate Swanson’s Vermont Gallery - 2025
“Craft, rarity, and integrity are what make an item truly special. The gallery celebrates that,” says Swanson, a fourth-generation Vermonter who’s returned after a dozen years in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, cutting her teeth at architecture and design firms there. with the hope of “sparking exchange between locals and the broader design community,” Swanson adds, “of weaving new voices into the existing creative fabric.”
A Vermont Industrial Building Becomes a Gallery for Material-Driven Design - 2025
“Swanson designed the gallery with concrete floors and plywood casework to foreground simplicity and process in the same spirit of the works on display. “Craft is the new luxury,” she says. “It’s unique, personal, and there’s always a face behind the piece, not just a name.”
We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kate Swanson a few weeks ago - 2025
“That shift not only changed how I design, but also how I curate. With both the studio and the gallery, I’m guided less by “what’s in” and more by what feels resonant, human, and enduring. It’s been freeing to move away from design as performance and toward design as connection.”
“Burlington, Vermont–based collectible design gallery Nurture by Nature launches next week with the “Unknown Friends” exhibit. Open to the public and available for purchase beginning on September 4, the inaugural collection offers 34 handcrafted works by 15 esteemed makers”
SURFACE7 AND DESIGN DISPATCH - 2025
“BY STAKING A CLAIM IN BURLINGTON, NURTURE BY NATURE POINTS TO A SHIFTING GEOGRAPHY OF influence IN DESIGN, WHERE NEW MARKETS AND AUDIENCES ARE BEING BUILT BEYOND THE USUAL STRONGHOLDS”
“Unknown Friends" features collectible furniture, lighting, and decorative objects by a group of Northeast makers, including Dotan Appelbaum, Anna Gukov, Miles Gracey, Yuxuan Huang, Basia Pruszynska, Jeff Cheung, Luke Malaney, John Wells, Madeline Isakson, Realm Objects, Chuck Van Dyck, Ford Bostwick, Natalie Shook, Bechara Maalouf, Charles Grantham”
Kate Swanson’s New Burlington Design Gallery Features Functional Art
"'Unknown Friends' is sentimental for Swanson. Atop John Wells' blackened steel side table are snapshots of a preschool-age Swanson wearing a red pinafore. She's barefoot and smiling broadly as she satnds in front of the green screen door and weathered white clapboard of her childhood home."
“Within the space, interior designers, furniture brands and design enthusiasts got together to discuss each step of the creative process, from initial sketches and inspirations to the final output.”
“How we design, what we like, what we pay attention to and why we design matters. The research-based process I’ve created over the last 15 years in the industry is a testament to that”
OSM CONSTRUCTION’S NEW OFFICE - 2023
“Opting for sophisticated colors, materials and finishes, the design is timeless and natural. Swanson compares the design with a well-tailored suit, ‘Timeless, seamless and exquisitely executed.’”