Sherman Warren is a designer, builder, and artist currently working in San Francisco. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from The California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) with a minor in Interior Architecture including studies at École Boulle in Paris.

Sherman has decades of experience building and renovating residential and commercial spaces, creating custom lighting and furniture, and making fine art for a wide variety of clients. He draws upon an extensive set of design, building, and finishing skills to achieve unique and finely crafted results.

Sherman is affable and great fun to work with. Sherman not only takes great pride in the quality of his work, but is eager to delight his clients with unique designs, and surpass their expectations. Previous clients can attest that "Better Living Through Sherman" isn't merely a slogan.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I am a maker. I have always been a maker, and there is little doubt that I will always be one. Believing it is my life’s purpose, I am compelled to do it. My earliest childhood memories are of making things, and since that time, I have been a commercial display artist, taught myself to draw and paint, studied architecture, and have transformed peoples lives through my own design/build business. I try to pursue beauty and invention in everything that I do.

The things I make incorporate many and diverse disciplines and mediums resulting in a wide variety of finished work. Though most of my work falls into the category of interior architecture or decorative art, I have at times, intentionally or by accident, crossed into the realm of fine art. The cultural significance or artistic value of my work is something I’m unable to consider; It’s difficult to discern one’s own work objectively. For me, the success of a piece is measured by the joy I get from its inspiration and the satisfaction I get from the process of making it.

The inspiration for my work comes from many places. Sometimes it is merely programmatic requirements or a desire to master a new material or tool. Other times inspiration is the result of my astute observational skills and keen ability to synthesize conceptual ideas. Occasionally I’m inspired by the need to augment and refine in a relentless pursuit of perfection. In all cases, I draw on a holistic and multidisciplinary thought process, a wide ranging skill set, and my desire to create something that intrigues and delights.

My prolific fabrication skills are the result of dogged determination and an insatiable desire to know how things are done. I’ve never let inexperience stop me from doing something new. Through study, practice, reverse engineering, and hacking I have developed and refined my expertise to include most trades and materials. This has allowed me to tackle process intensive and logistically complex projects solely on my own with results that are cohesive and detailed.

The relationship between my conceptual and generative abilities is, for the most part, fluid. The study of architecture had a profound impact on my understanding of process and the way intentions and outcomes inform each other. This understanding has allowed me to be flexible and improvisational in my creative and making processes. Not content with merely envisioning and producing, l continually question each step along the way to consider relationships, order, balance, and a myriad of other variables I feel are pertinent to the task at hand, all the while striving to imbue my work with meaning, aesthetic value, and wit.