https://nicholastilma.com Nicholas Tilma Studio Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:12:20 +0000 https://nicholastilma.com en https://nicholastilma.com/Home Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:04:26 +0000 Nicholas Tilma Studio https://nicholastilma.com/Home https://nicholastilma.com/Contact-1 Wed, 28 May 2025 03:21:38 +0000 Nicholas Tilma Studio https://nicholastilma.com/Contact-1 <img width="3000" height="1000" width_o="3000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cee3066d956147f325c4ba4173529fbd8c47fb09368e1449c62ad3bc21c3b7ae/HELLO-2.png" data-mid="233814148" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cee3066d956147f325c4ba4173529fbd8c47fb09368e1449c62ad3bc21c3b7ae/HELLO-2.png" /> form { font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; max-width: 500px; margin: 20px auto; padding: 10px; } label { font-weight: bold; display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 14px; } input[type="text"], input[type="email"], textarea { width: 100%; padding: 8px; border: 2px solid #0000ff; border-radius: 0; font-size: 14px; color: #333; box-sizing: border-box; } input::placeholder, textarea::placeholder { color: grey; font-family: "Fira Code", monospace; } button { background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; padding: 10px; border: 3px solid 0000ff; border-radius: 0; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; width: 50%; text-transform: uppercase; transition: background-color 0.3s ease, color 0.3s ease; } button:hover { background-color: #0000ff; color: white; } @media (max-width: 600px) { form { padding: 10px; } input[type="text"], input[type="email"], textarea { font-size: 13px; padding: 6px; } label { font-size: 13px; } button { font-size: 14px; padding: 8px; } } For commissions, exhibitions, press, or any other inquiries, please fill out the form below and I will be in touch! Name: Email Address: Inquiry: Submit https://nicholastilma.com/Info-1 Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:38:58 +0000 Nicholas Tilma Studio https://nicholastilma.com/Info-1 <img width="1077" height="1456" width_o="1077" height_o="1456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15ad18be186a4170f4fdfaafa7889fb804140067668ef9d4bfc1007cb02b73e7/1DE0F033-D842-48DE-A3D0-36AEEEFFC77F.JPEG" data-mid="237259675" border="0" alt="Portrait by Daniel Ribar" data-caption="Portrait by Daniel Ribar" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15ad18be186a4170f4fdfaafa7889fb804140067668ef9d4bfc1007cb02b73e7/1DE0F033-D842-48DE-A3D0-36AEEEFFC77F.JPEG" /> Nicholas Tilma is a designer and artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Through experimental and traditional fabrication techniques and by mixing material languages he creates otherworldly furniture, lighting, and objects that combine references to artificial nature and science fiction to address the following questions: How will humans of the future memorialize the natural world when our references are themselves the fake versions of the real thing? How can we acknowledge our collective fear of a dystopian future, while romanticizing its aesthetic? He received an MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023 and a BFA in Art &amp; Design from the University of Michigan. He was a furniture designer at Floyd from 2015 to 2021 and has maintained a personal studio practice since 2015. He has exhibited work in New York City, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Ann Arbor. In addition to operating his studio practice he is Shop Lead at Saidi Studios in Ferndale, Michigan and an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture and Community Development. For commissions, press, or any other inquiries please use the contact form here. Stockists: DUDD HAUS Education 2023 - MFA 3D Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art 2015 - BFA Stamps School of Art &amp; Design, Universtiy of Michigan Experience2025 - Present - Shop Lead, Saidi Studios, Ferndale, MI 2024 - Present - Adjunct Instructor, University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture and Community Development, Detroit, MI 2024 - 2025 - Studio Manager, Cranbrook Academy of Art Department of Architecture 2015 - Present - Principal, Nicholas Tilma Studio, Detroit, MI 2015 - 2021 - Product Designer (Furniture), FLOYD, Detroit, MI Exhibitions 2025 - This Is Not A Strut (Blu Dot x Dudd Haus), Blu Dot Nomad Showroom, New York, NY&nbsp; 2025 - Grateful Dudd, Shelter Design Fair, New York, NY (Curated by Chen Chen &amp; Kai Williams) 2024 - 28 Lights, The Hunt Vintage, Los Angeles, CA (Curated by Lieya Dagan and Spenser Atlas) 2023 -&nbsp;Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2022 -&nbsp;Cranbrook Chair Show, First National Building, Detroit, MI 2022 -&nbsp;Hot Stuff, Rabbit Rabbit, New York, NY 2021 -&nbsp;Cranbrook Chair Show, Jack Craig Studio, Detroit, MI 2020 -&nbsp;Super Group, Superhouse, Brooklyn, NY 2020 -&nbsp;Never Normal, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI 2019 -&nbsp;❗❓(In Good Company), Fernando Mastrangelo Studio, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Rossana Orlandi and Fernando Mastrangelo) 2019 -&nbsp;Works in Progress, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI 2018 -&nbsp;SHAPE: Defining Furniture in Michigan’s Design Legacy, Shinola Flagship Store, Detroit, MI (Curated by I.M. Weiss)2018 -&nbsp;Return of the Living Dudd, Jonald Dudd, Brooklyn, NY (Collaboration with Evan Bruetsch) 2017 -&nbsp;Designer Putt Putt, Detroit Design Festival, Detroit, MI (Collaboration with Stephen Busscher) Press This Is Not A Strut featured on Dezeen Dezeen - Ten studios leading Detroit's design scene in 2024 Habitat Lounger (2023)&nbsp;is&nbsp;featured in the July/August 2024 issue of&nbsp;Architectural Digest Germany In Good Company featured on Sight Unseen "Detroit Furniture Design Legacy" in Surface Magazine Popeye Magazine (Japan) Makers' Way of Living Feature, February 2018 Issue &amp; Interior Issue, This is How City Boys Live, 2019 (feature reprint) Hypotenuse Light featured on Sight Unseen Artist Profile: Nick Tilma, Michigan Daily Additional Links Instagram Tumblr&nbsp; Photography&nbsp; Soundcloud&nbsp; LinkedIn https://nicholastilma.com/Habitat-Side-Table Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:12:20 +0000 Nicholas Tilma Studio https://nicholastilma.com/Habitat-Side-Table Habitat Side Table 19” x 14” x 14”. Poplar, steel, hydrostone. 2025 Exhibited with at Jonald Dudd&nbsp;GRATEFUL DUDD – Celebrating 10 years of NYC Design Week’s wurst 🌭 exhibition. This year’s installment is guest curated by Chen Chen &amp; Kai Williams and will take place as part of the Shelter Design Fair by Afternoon Light.&nbsp;May 17-19, 2025, Starrett-Lehigh Building, New York, NY.&nbsp; Jonald Dudd <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1442cd7e2c641313819531fc92fee4b2e585734dffb8a2de22a27764d19c492/BB2510EB-074E-4DC3-BCCB-A00683A3FFAC.JPEG" data-mid="237259498" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1442cd7e2c641313819531fc92fee4b2e585734dffb8a2de22a27764d19c492/BB2510EB-074E-4DC3-BCCB-A00683A3FFAC.JPEG" /> <img width="3530" height="4412" width_o="3530" height_o="4412" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/445e803c270e12100682b5c0a24090f1dd69b0024d5b59b77d520d6b35a64e9b/Nick-T-Studio-94.jpg" data-mid="237259492" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/445e803c270e12100682b5c0a24090f1dd69b0024d5b59b77d520d6b35a64e9b/Nick-T-Studio-94.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f861ab367af3c159499bcaa0fd084e9feca8c7312ed90d6d2ba6767d1a066e67/Tilma_Nicholas-Habitat-Side-Table-03.JPEG" data-mid="237259499" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f861ab367af3c159499bcaa0fd084e9feca8c7312ed90d6d2ba6767d1a066e67/Tilma_Nicholas-Habitat-Side-Table-03.JPEG" /> https://nicholastilma.com/Space-Rock-Landing-Craft-Table-Light Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:06:12 +0000 Nicholas Tilma Studio https://nicholastilma.com/Space-Rock-Landing-Craft-Table-Light Space Craft Landing Craft Table LightPLA, epoxy clay, steel, aluminum, LED, acrylic. 2025THIS IS NOT A STRUT – collaborative exhibition produced in partnership with Blu Dot for NYC Design Week 2025. The show celebrated the 20th anniversary of the iconic Strut table and tasked DUDD HAUS members with the creation of new, strut-inspired works. From novel extrapolations of the table’s core design principles to boldly idiosyncratic reinterpretations of its name, the works offer a diverse vision of Strut’s lasting impact on the furniture landscape—viewed through the lens of today’s most exciting emerging talent. Struts form an integral structural component for many objects. The tripod as a form has been a successful structure for many thousands of years, from basic cooking implements – think three sticks fashioned together to hold a pot over fire –to camera tripods, which provide stability to take clearer photos and videos – to highly advanced moon landing spacecraft. The Space Rock Landing Craft Table light makes use of a double-strut tripod design that echoes the design of these objects, while providing a balanced structure to suspend its light-emitting rock above the table’s surface. 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https://nicholastilma.com/Skyfire-Sconces-2023 Fri, 08 Sep 2023 03:29:35 +0000 Nicholas Tilma Studio https://nicholastilma.com/Skyfire-Sconces-2023 Skyfire Sconces, 2023Epoxy clay, PVC, acrylic, LED tube lighting, steel, hardware, green rubber electrical cord.&nbsp; Heatlamps for future-reptilitan-humanoid species to gather near in the safehaven caves deep beneath the surface during the annual zardemf raves – a time to celebrate survival and dance the days into nights, the Skyfire recharging their chem balances.&nbsp; Skyfire Sconces take a sculptural and dramatic approach to wall-mounted lighting. Epoxy clay sculpted around perforated PVC tubes that contain LED tube lights emit light outwardly surrounding each sconce, while simultaneously projecting light through stylized orange acrylic diffusers, creating an otherworldly cellular structure-looking lighting effect.&nbsp; <img width="5996" height="9012" width_o="5996" height_o="9012" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91ff642765915c97ac1ef61e5d6de4c31e4f87cdcdbcfc4ffc4e9b968f542e42/NicholasTilma_SkyfireSconces01.jpg" data-mid="190104190" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91ff642765915c97ac1ef61e5d6de4c31e4f87cdcdbcfc4ffc4e9b968f542e42/NicholasTilma_SkyfireSconces01.jpg" /> <img width="4920" height="7392" width_o="4920" height_o="7392" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a0bd8e7d581d9a42508ca513382f4c8a0792bd5c7340ae75903f5dd8e4bb78d/NicholasTilma_SkyfireSconces02.jpg" data-mid="190104189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a0bd8e7d581d9a42508ca513382f4c8a0792bd5c7340ae75903f5dd8e4bb78d/NicholasTilma_SkyfireSconces02.jpg" /> <img width="4100" height="6160" width_o="4100" height_o="6160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35206881a01d027ad3318603654a02c34d6752d52943922d3b9babe1fc87d289/TJW_1831.jpg" data-mid="190104191" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35206881a01d027ad3318603654a02c34d6752d52943922d3b9babe1fc87d289/TJW_1831.jpg" /> https://nicholastilma.com/Habitat-Lounger-2023 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 05:52:55 +0000 Nicholas Tilma Studio https://nicholastilma.com/Habitat-Lounger-2023 Habitat Lounger (a place to be), 2023Powder Coated Steel, Tulip Poplar, Concrete, Epoxy Resin, Epoxy Clay, Light Bulb, Electrical Wiring Exhibited as part of the 2023 Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Degree Exhibition at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, MI., April 8 - May 15, 2023. <img width="3872" height="2581" width_o="3872" height_o="2581" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4240c8f63db6cb45d4394d3b64e864620fe9e0c6138b1875add97301d36a3d9a/_DSC3744-copy.jpg" data-mid="175601164" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4240c8f63db6cb45d4394d3b64e864620fe9e0c6138b1875add97301d36a3d9a/_DSC3744-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3373" height="2248" width_o="3373" height_o="2248" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/747c5fe4c62b1d3185a1d9a094e63df4568857a447d92a50abc442c2913eff90/_DSC4039.jpg" data-mid="175601169" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/747c5fe4c62b1d3185a1d9a094e63df4568857a447d92a50abc442c2913eff90/_DSC4039.jpg" /> <img width="3872" height="2581" width_o="3872" height_o="2581" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1aaad583f7e0d1fdba9ef5c5bf4aa425ce7d366c54d4491a990e259dd6e8a75/_DSC3758.jpg" data-mid="175601170" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1aaad583f7e0d1fdba9ef5c5bf4aa425ce7d366c54d4491a990e259dd6e8a75/_DSC3758.jpg" /> <img width="3872" height="2581" width_o="3872" height_o="2581" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/709227700eaa0ca55919c872f5c1ea576eeb8364e108225186af180e81acf4ad/_DSC3746.jpg" data-mid="175601167" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/709227700eaa0ca55919c872f5c1ea576eeb8364e108225186af180e81acf4ad/_DSC3746.jpg" /> <img width="2738" height="1825" width_o="2738" height_o="1825" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0beb0f6a8578fb37b50c612bc5a5ac495df379621a0c5a370aad61edd1ae089/_DSC3748.jpg" data-mid="175601240" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0beb0f6a8578fb37b50c612bc5a5ac495df379621a0c5a370aad61edd1ae089/_DSC3748.jpg" /> Habitat Lounger is a place to be. The only place you need to be. Have a seat! A comfortable yet supportive place to sit with a smooth, sculpted poplar wood seat, and a wavy sculpted backrest in the same material. Feel the soft ridges along your back offering a light massage of your back muscles. Above, a dimmable light, filtered through a piece of blue bark, and reflected in a glassy smooth surface of the amoeba-oak leaf-esque blue-green cast resin canopy supported by a branching steel armature. Extend your right arm to feel another moment of smooth sculpted poplar, and place your drink, book, or personal communication device upon the continent-shaped side table. Along your left arm sits a large, flattened piece of blue bark, rendered in epoxy clay, it looks as if it has been extracted from a future archaeological dig from the era when all the trees turned blue. As you look down, you notice that each leg of this sculptural-structural tube steel frame upon which everything is attached is rooted in a solid base of cast concrete, an architectural material that will surely last the test of time, albeit eventually crumbling to a pile of dust. The back left leg appears to be composed of a stack of light blue pine two-by-twos atop a stack of blue plywood. Is this also an artifact from the future, when the blue trees were cut and harvested into blue lumber, then discarded and fossilized into petrified lumber? A bright yellow sculpty dimmer switch and bright yellow rubber cord emerge from this piece, reminding you of the functional nature/electronic function of the light above; the other end of the cord terminating in a fake rock base. Does this connect to some magic source of power within? Or is this fake rock merely covering an unsightly electrical outlet, one that connects to “The Grid,” where in 2023 power is still derived from the antiquated process known as “Burning Coal”. When the petrified blue trees get buried deep enough, will they too, be dug up and burned to produce blue-wood electricity in the next geological period? The front left leg is smaller and greenish with a texture resembling bark, perhaps another petrified log? Here it’s a simulated version, one made with a mold made out of hot glue – melted plastic used to mimic a tree’s bark. The other two legs are rooted in pure cylindrical bases, reminding you of the industrial origins of this chair. The steel tubes produced in a mill, the raw cement dried in cylindrical rotary kilns, industrial facilities where the form of the cylinder is commonplace. Habitat Lounger offers a comfortable place to plant oneself for a while, a place to read or relax, or to contemplate the vastitude of all things “natural” and “artificial” or to realize the false binary within that framing of the planet. https://nicholastilma.com/Skyfire-Pendant-2023 Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:17:06 +0000 Nicholas Tilma Studio https://nicholastilma.com/Skyfire-Pendant-2023 Skyfire Pendant, 2022 Epoxy clay, PVC, acrylic, LED tube lighting, rubberized chain, hardware A heatlamp for future-reptilitan-humanoid species to gather under in the safehaven caves deep beneath the surface during the annual zardemf raves – a time to celebrate survival and dance the days into nights, the Skyfire recharging their chem balances. <img width="1440" height="1800" width_o="1440" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62d2f92536eea1be401926c7b9f7d6f15a61fc6b347079a405d50bfadcc599c6/81247AB6-A7F4-4C90-A8D7-DA0C5B24D928.JPG" data-mid="171021028" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62d2f92536eea1be401926c7b9f7d6f15a61fc6b347079a405d50bfadcc599c6/81247AB6-A7F4-4C90-A8D7-DA0C5B24D928.JPG" /> <img width="1092" height="1262" width_o="1092" height_o="1262" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06dd91cc2a5aab64821a348732464994bbef5184d8ae8a203f4d66639457d28b/NicholasTilma-Hanging-Light-1.png" data-mid="171021099" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06dd91cc2a5aab64821a348732464994bbef5184d8ae8a203f4d66639457d28b/NicholasTilma-Hanging-Light-1.png" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e3642352c300553c894e00096efb984a0e8b20fc164abb2ef0a84aa32ab8c2b/IMG_0706.jpg" data-mid="174140320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e3642352c300553c894e00096efb984a0e8b20fc164abb2ef0a84aa32ab8c2b/IMG_0706.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f97d23ddc9ee55d43572a8180eb2e1454e3eb7859099de125a2a2af177135f9/IMG_0687.jpg" data-mid="174140321" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f97d23ddc9ee55d43572a8180eb2e1454e3eb7859099de125a2a2af177135f9/IMG_0687.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edeb6e6bead845ea33e0a0e18d3073b0dbda17c38fea016ba911742d58c4fb3a/IMG_1164.jpg" data-mid="174258137" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/edeb6e6bead845ea33e0a0e18d3073b0dbda17c38fea016ba911742d58c4fb3a/IMG_1164.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/848a206fcc1de995755b153bcc8b38bf1151451ee19a53f71da1cdd880225336/IMG_3100.jpg" data-mid="174260006" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/848a206fcc1de995755b153bcc8b38bf1151451ee19a53f71da1cdd880225336/IMG_3100.jpg" />