About Studio Herron


Studio Herron, is a design studio that focuses on textiles, furniture and objects that combine an artistic process and traditional craft methodologies with the utilitarian and the aesthetic. Studio Herron creates unique and beautiful work for the trade, commercial retail, private and public commission, gallery exhibition and the Studio Herron label. Each are thoughtful works of art for everyday life, utility and comfort.

Photo: Evan Jenkins

Photo: Evan Jenkins

Dee Clements Founder, Creative Director, Designer

Dee Clements is a process-based designer who has a deep love of and interest in materials and craft. She holds an MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA in Fiber and Materials Studies and Sculpture from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

I’m fascinated by the fundamental connections between needs, craft, and culture. This social lens reveals rich connections between people, materials and objects that drives my practice. Many cultures live in harmony with the land and have histories of building agrarian economies and communities around materials harvested from the environment. Now more than ever with the onset of climate change is the gap between high tech and lo-tek design widening an indelible and irrevocable gap. Techniques of crafting materials into useful goods for everyday use, adornment and decoration in a manner that is sustainable and regenerative while nodding toward mythologies and traditions is what has most inspires my work. The evolution of designed objects from prehistory to today shows a lineage of ingenuity through material languages. It also shows where crafts became divided by gender and child rearing. The roots of craft and design come from ancient cultures that designed tools and objects to solve everyday problems and decorate the quotidian.  Touching on certain ethnographic lineages, the pieces created in the studio, from vessels and cloth to furniture look to anthropology and cultural histories to find new language – in essence, looking backward to find an informed way forward. 


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Aubrey Pittman-Heglund: Studio Manager

Aubrey is a talented textile artist with a BFA in Fiber and Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She manages the day-to-day of Studio Herron’s operations and is the first point of contact. She was born in Chicago and loves all things punk and DIY.