DESIGN & ARCHTIECTURE

THE FLUID FORM

Through a seamless fusion of digital design and artisanal craftsmanship, Michael Sean Stolworthy transforms furniture into sinuous, sculptural expressions of nature—fluid forms that evoke emotion, motion, and the sublime.

JESSICA HALL

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There are designers who work within form—and then there is Michael Sean Stolworthy, who reimagines it entirely. Based in Las Vegas, Stolworthy’s work lives at the threshold between art and design, translating the organic rhythms of nature into fluid, sculptural objects that feel at once futuristic and primordial. His pieces are less furniture than they are functional art—bronze, limestone, resin, and glass transformed into silhouettes that evoke both movement and memory.

To experience his work in person is to feel its presence before understanding its purpose. A chair curves like a splash of water caught mid-fall. A table undulates like wind-sculpted sand. Edges dissolve into light; surfaces invite touch. They are pieces that hum quietly in a space—sensuous, intentional, and unapologetically original.

Michael Sean Stolworthy

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At the heart of Stolworthy’s practice is a rare synthesis of traditional craftsmanship and digital mastery. Trained in media arts and 3D animation following early studies in ornamental horticulture and botany, his design language is deeply rooted in the systems of the natural world: spiral phyllotaxis, coral formations, the biomechanics of petals and bone. These instincts are refined using tools like Maya, Rhino, and ZBrush, where form is sculpted in virtual space before becoming physical reality.

“Animation taught me how to make objects breathe,” he notes. “But it’s nature that taught me why they should.”

Inside his studio, computational freedom and artisan fabrication operate in harmony. Design begins in code—refined, iterated, evolved—and is then translated by a network of skilled fabricators across disciplines: lost-wax bronze casting, traditional stone carving, resin infusion, and metal forming. CNC machining and 3D printing do not replace the human hand but amplify its possibilities, turning imagined geometries into physical truths.

This philosophy of balance—between organic and engineered, digital and hand-hewn, avant-garde and ancestral—has attracted a diverse and prestigious clientele. His creations have appeared in Marvel films, adorned luxury environments for brands like Ferrari and LVMH, and been commissioned for yachts, resorts, and private collectors’ homes worldwide. Yet despite this global presence, Stolworthy’s process remains deeply personal and boutique.

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“I started my studio to escape the constraints of commercial design and build something more peculiar, more poetic,” he says. That poetic instinct is what gives his work its resonance. Each piece emerges not just as a product, but as an artifact of inquiry—of motion distilled into stillness.

Though his objects often suggest future worlds, they are always grounded in the present—the weight of the materials, the discipline of technique, the intimacy of handcraft. In his world, a chair is not just a seat. It is a gesture. A vessel. A conversation between form and feeling.

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Inflection Table

Michael Sean Stolworthy doesn’t just design objects. He designs experiences—immersive, kinetic, and tactile encounters that remind us that beauty is not static. It flows. It curves. It transforms. And when done right, it leaves a trace.

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