{"id":265394,"date":"2025-10-15T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=canvasflow&p=265394"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:25:36","slug":"nurture-by-nature-kate-swanson-burlington-vermont","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/nurture-by-nature-kate-swanson-burlington-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Craft + Integrity At Kate Swanson’s Vermont Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nurture by Nature, designer Kate Swanson\u2019s 350-squarefoot, Burlington, Vermont, gallery bowed last month with \u201cUnknown Friends,\u201d an exhibition of furnishings and objets by 15 Northeast-based makers that runs through mid-November, appointment only. Photography by Charlie Schuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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October 15, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Annie Block\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Celebrate Craft + Integrity At Kate Swanson’s Vermont Gallery<\/h1>\n\n\n

Vermont has been quietly\u00a0home to aesthetics-related endeavors for awhile. Hubbardton Forge<\/a> and its metal- and woodworkers established there in 1974; Simon Pearce<\/a> and its glassblowers set up shop in Quechee in 1981. But similar to the New York City to Hudson Valley exodus during COVID, more designers and artists are heeding the call of the Green Mountain State\u2019s bucolic serenity and collaborative spirit. Our pal Fran\u00e7ois Chambard of UM Project<\/a> recently moved his object-design workshop from Brooklyn to near Middlebury. And Kate Swanson has just launched Nurture by Nature<\/a>, a tidy Burlington gallery named after her 5-year-old residential-interiors studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCraft, rarity, and integrity are what make an item truly special. The gallery celebrates that,\u201d says Swanson, a fourth-generation Vermonter who\u2019s returned after a dozen years in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, cutting her teeth at architecture and design firms there. The dozens of furniture, lighting, and decorative pieces in \u201cUnknown Friends,\u201d the debut exhibit, showcase that integrity she mentions, each one hand-produced by makers based outside Vermont\u2014Ford Bostwick and Natalie Shook among them\u2014with the hope of \u201csparking exchange between locals and the broader design community,\u201d Swanson adds, \u201cof weaving new voices into the existing creative fabric.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nurture by Nature, designer Kate Swanson\u2019s 350-squarefoot, Burlington, Vermont, gallery bowed last month with \u201cUnknown Friends,\u201d an exhibition of furnishings and objets by 15 Northeast-based makers that runs through mid-November, appointment only. Photography by Charlie Schuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Madeline Isakson\u2019s white oak\u2013framed Tchotchke<\/em> mirror. Photography by Charlotte Dworshak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Anna Gukov’s Tassel II<\/em>. Photography by Charlie Schuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Anna Gukov\u2019s Brimming Chalice of Delight<\/em> and Stage Left<\/em>, in ceramic and glaze, among the 34 pieces on display. Photography by Charlie Schuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n