May, 2004                For Immediate Release
Bringing Play Into Home Decor
Didi Dunphy is the designer and director of Modern Convenience and the 
Recess line of art hybrid furnishings. Didi is exhibiting her works in 
the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, (ICFF), this year, at 
the Javits Convention Center May 15-18, in New York.  Booth # 1526

Didi has an artist’s background, primarily sculpture, video, and other 
time-based arts. She received an MFA from the Art Institute in San 
Francisco and has exhibited her work in galleries and museums across 
North America. Currently she lives in Athens, Georgia and teaches at 
the University in the Digital Media Department.

Modern Convenience furnishings stem from the concept of Recess: 
Bringing the free time of recess indoors and re-introducing play 
through sculptural elements. Didi’s hybrid forms bring the outdoors 
inside and are designed for people to engage in parallel play where 
friendships, alliances, collaborations and good ideas can happen.

Modern Convenience: Recess
Barnett Newman once said that sculpture is something you bump into when 
you are backing up to look at a painting. If you bump into the Swing or 
See-Saw you can hop on with out hurting your shin or leaving a 
scuffmark from your high heel. Didi uses vinyl that is play friendly 
and oversized acrylic tassels and chrome handlebars that sparkle and 
sway. Or take a quick spin around the dining room table on the Inside 
Skate, a tuck n' roll upholstered skateboard. With a background in fine 
arts,  Didi re-invents  sculpture, creating an elegant human-friendly 
functional form with whimsy.




See Saw                                                                               Inside Skate


*Above - Didi with Lucy Rounds