Mr. Mark Daniel This is Me

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1. 1. Company Bio

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   Published on: 6/24/2002   Last Visited: 6/24/2002

   Along with Suzette Menard and Mark Daniel, they form the creative and management core of OK Works.
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   Mark Daniel is our designer trained as an architect at Georgia Tech and the Ecole d'Architecture Paris- Tolbiac. After graduation, he took a position as Product Development Manager for Modulus in Chicago. There he designed home furnishings while traveling overseas to supervise production in Asian factories. After 4 years with Modulus he accepted a position at Jordan Mozer and Associates as a furniture designer.

2. 2. www.customfurnituredesign.com

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   Published on: 3/31/2002   Last Visited: 3/31/2002

   Custom Furniture Design - Mark Daniel
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   Mark Daniel received his Bachelors in Architecture from Georgia Tech in 1992. He spent his senior year at the Ecole d'Architecture-Tolbiac in Paris, a satellite school of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. "That year was the single most influential time of my design life. It was in Paris that I began to see furniture design as a sort of mini-architecture. I think of each of my designs in terms of interior and exterior, resulting in forms that celebrate the three dimensional and enclosing of space. This architectural approach to furniture design still plays a vital role in my work today."
   
   After graduation, Mark relocated to Chicago, where he was a Product Development Manager for Modulus, designing furniture and home accessories for the US and European markets for four years. He then moved into architecture and interior design, working with Jordan Mozer and Associates. There he developed custom furniture designed specifically for the interiors of clients such as Disney, the Bellagio Casino and Cirque du Soleil. "I found it a refreshing change to create a unique individual piece allowing me to really crawl into details of a design and be more demanding of the quality of its fabrication."
   
   Mark has recently launched his own thoroughly modern line of furniture designs, with Slate Design. "I strive to create designs that reflect today's lifestyle, yet also look towards the future without falling prey to trend or style. As a result of my architectural education, I want my designs to have a real sense of clarity, value and permanence".

3. 3. www.evanstonroundtable.com

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   Published on: 2/22/2006   Last Visited: 11/28/2007

   The fact that his back office in the building at 1525 Greenleaf St. has no windows does not restrict Mark Daniel's vision.
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   And while Mr. Daniel occupies but a small space in Evanston, the world is his workshop.
   
   The pieces he dreams up here are for the most part manufactured on the other side of the globe. So two or three times a year, instead of walking five blocks to work, he flies to southern China to confer with people he describes as "amazing artisans." The relationship nourishes him, he says: "It's a partnership, me learning from them."
   
   That sort of modesty is a constant refrain in his story, which begins in Atlanta, Ga., where he spent his childhood and stayed on to pursue an architecture degree at Georgia Tech. Until he went to the École des Beaux Arts in Paris for his junior year, he had never left the Southeast United States. "It was the best year of my life," he says, a time to see things he knew only from books and to explore Europe.
   
   Hooked on travel and lured by Chicago's legendary architecture, he contacted a friend here after graduation in 1992. "I packed up the car, drove up, and started selling futons," he says.
   
   The next year he met an architect whose company, Modulus Inc., imported furniture from Southeast Asia. Mr. Daniel spent four years at the company, working his way up from draftsman to head of product development and making valuable manufacturing contacts.
   
   He gained a different kind of experience with the architecture/interior design firm Jordan Mozer & Associates, whose services extend to shaping total environments for the Cirque de Soleil and the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
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   While Mr. Daniel describes his personal style as modern, he calls himself a "chameleon." He is comfortable with work that "is not about me.
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   But Mark Daniel does not mind anonymity. "I'm not an ego-driven designer who wants my name on things," he says. At some friends' house recently he noticed a dining room table he had designed. They did not know. "That's the ultimate compliment," he says.
   
   Learn more at www.slatedesign.com.