kGz DESIGN  –  The Spirit of Form in Wood

Krystine Graziano has been involved in art and design for 30 years in New Mexico and California. Her background includes work in lithography, museum exhibitions, and architecture. Over the last 9 years Graziano has been designing and building furniture. Crisscrossing many disciplines, all of her endeavors have been visual, spatial, and creative. 

With a decade long experience in architecture, she has an affinity with materials, a fascination with process itself, and a comfort working in three-dimensional space. Graziano has a very simple aesthetic and considers herself a “modernist.”  The work has a simple beauty and seems pared down to what is essential. Designing and building furniture has proven to be a very fluid transition from architecture and an endeavor that is incredibly challenging and stimulating.

Design is her passion. Grazianos’projects are driven by a desire to learn a technique, be it traditional or a current trend and work through the challenges of each unique wood species and its characteristics. From time to time, working with museum exhibitions, her process is much more inclusive and diverse. Responsibility for layout, display casework design, architectural finishes, artifact placement would be common.

Krystine is influenced and inspired by her exposure to the landscapes of the desert, forest and ocean she has lived in or near.

She is currently living on the Mendocino Coast in the redwoods of California where she enjoys a community of talented artists and woodworkers.