Photo credit: Anna Maria Lopez (ig: @annamariaalopez)

Sterling and Six was founded in 2017 by Jack Garrity. The company originally focused on furniture design but continues to evolve as Jack’s creative passions do. We design and produce furniture and home wares, as well as paint murals and wall coverings. Our website shares the creative journey of this unhinged artist and his wild aspiration to create a super cool company that makes a bunch of beautiful stuff.

Jack Garrity graduated from Connecticut College in 2013 after studying architecture and art. He worked in construction in Boston before attending the Career Discovery program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His experience in design and construction forged his desire to throw himself into the fine detail of furniture craft in the Fall of 2014 and move to Brooklyn, NY. His training has involved working for three of the premier furniture makers in Brooklyn as a woodworker and a finisher.

In 2020, he took up painting for the first time since college and it’s been this whole journey and anyway, he loves to paint so it‘s been this really emotional exploration and he enjoys doing it. The reason he wants to show his artwork next to his furniture is because they seem to come from two very different creative processes and he finds that interesting. On the one hand, you have the furniture that’s been sketched and measured and planned and made so precisely, and on the other you have these paintings desperately splattered and swirled, sometimes angrily so, all in a matter of an hour or two, and none of it was planned or considered beforehand. That is what Jack finds interesting.

Sterling and Six, like the human who runs it, is a work in progress. We are fascinated by artistic expression, creative exploration, and holistic health. We are endlessly inspired by our natural environment and our relationship to it. Because of this, we are a company which strives to develop a deeper understanding of who we are through our artwork.

We believe the best way to learn is by doing.

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