Katie Stout Art for Sale at Auction

Brooklyn-based furniture designer/artist Stout has shown her work in Milan, at Art Basel and at various galleries in New York City. She is a former director of the trendy Johnson's Trading Gallery in New York, which displays work by designers who, like Stout, push the boundaries of traditional furniture construction. Stout says she wants to "encourage people to invite the slightly deranged, ugly and demented into their lives through usable objects." One of her pieces: a braided rug in the shape of a human eye with a protruding blue pupil. In 2015 she won Ellen Degeneres' Design Challenge on HGTV.