Join Matthew Day Perez of Shiny Sparkle Studio, Adam Holtzinger and Susan Špiranović of KEEP, and Felicia Hung of In Common With for a discussion on the relationship between fabricators and designers when creating contemporary works and design. Moderated by Adrian Madlener, contributor to Dezeen, Wallpaper and Luxe.

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About Matthew Day Perez

Matthew Day Perez received his BFA from Illinois State University and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has received many awards, including the Fulbright, and the John Rena National Endowments for the Arts Scholarship, as well as residencies at The Corning Museum of Glass, The Creative Glass Center of America, and Pilchuck Glass School. Most recently, he cofounded Shiny Sparkle Studio/Labs, the premier casting and fusing facility in New York City.

About Adam Holtzinger

Adam Holtzinger holds a BFA in Glass from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Since 2003, Adam has designed and fabricated work for designers and artists, as well as other glass makers in Brooklyn, NY. Adam has taught, lectured and demonstrated glass blowing nationally and internationally at Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, Urban Glass, Brooklyn Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Corning Museum of Glass & GlassLab, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, NOCA, 141 Penn Studios, Ohio State University, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Osaka Art University in Osaka Japan and Tama Glass School in Tokyo Japan.

About Susan Špiranović

Susan Špiranović is a Croatian-American artist with an interest in creating meaningful dialogue between material and heritage, exploring how history can be examined to rethink and create new traditions through glass. Her work was recently exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum. Špiranović is also co-founder of KEEP in Brooklyn, N.Y. with partner Adam Holtzinger. They have more than 40 years of experience in the glass and design worlds and have been featured in publications such as the New York Times.

About Felicia Hung

Felicia Hung is the co-founder of In Common With and Quarters. Her design practice is driven by an obsession with craft, materials, and the often-invisible processes that bring objects to life. She and co-founder Nick Ozemba launched In Common With in 2018 as a studio that operates on this shared ethos, integrating traditional modes of making with modern, scalable production. Since their founding, Felicia has led the development and manufacturing of the brand’s modular lighting and homeware collections, building frameworks that allow handcraft and experimentation to live in concert with precision and scale. Her focus extends beyond design to the complex, collaborative systems that make it possible to create objects with this synthesis of creative rigor and adaptability. In 2024, she expanded this vision with the opening of Quarters, a concept store and gathering space in New York where her commitment to process translates into products that are as meticulously engineered as they are unexpected and alive. Between both these brands, Felicia continues to expand the definition of design entrepreneurship, grounding it in structure and systems design while leaving room for curiosity, collaboration, and change.

About Adrian Madlener

Adrian Madlener is a Brussels-born, New York-based design writer, curator, and strategist. Over the past 14 years, he has held editorial positions at Frame Magazine, TLMag and The Architect's Newspaper, while also contributing to publications including Architectural Digest, Curbed, Dwell, Dezeen, Hypebeast, Galerie, Monocle, Surface and Wallpaper*. Madlener consults for numerous design fairs, firms, galleries and brands. He has curated exhibitions on tool theory and counterfeit culture. Across his work, Madlener is most interested in craft-led experimentation, highlighting talents that push the boundaries of material, form and typology.