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Jean Prouve

Jean Prouvé apprenticed as a black smith before opening his own workshop/studio where these designs were produced. Most of his designs show his amazing intuition for the material properties of wood and metal. Practical efficiency and accessibility without compromising aesthetics was of primary interest in his work. These are values also shared by Eames, McCobb and Frankl, some of his mid-century American contemporaries. He collaborated with architects and other designers throughout his prolific career and the results are even more impressive a generation later .

Jean Prouvé (8 April 1901 - 23 March 1984)

all images from Jean Prove, Gallerie Patrick Seguin Paris

Introducing Melissa Licht

Empiric's (not so new) full time sales associate, Melissa Licht, grew up in LA frequenting the LA County Museum of Art, the Natural History Museum and taking classes at Barnsdale Art Park.







After getting her BA in Art History at the University of Vermont, Melissa moved to Boston where she earned a Certificate of Decorative Arts at The Boston Architectural College.




When Melissa recently moved back to LA to pursue a career in Interior Design, Empiric was lucky enough to hire her. Welcome Melissa!

New Arrivals at Empiric!

Sense of Humor

If you are going to commit yourself to any task for a while, you'll need discipline, passion, desire and a sense of humor to keep you going. Not necessarily in that order. The cartoonist, sculptor, author and engineer Rube Goldberg had all those qualities. In 1931 the Merriam-Webster dictionary adopted the word "Rube Goldberg" as an adjective defined as accomplishing something simple through complex means. At Empiric we strive to serve our customers in the most direct and simple means possible but sometimes our days feel more like the cartoon above.