OTHRSPACE is a Los Angeles-based creative practice focused on Amanda’s personal work which includes painting, furniture, and sculptural objects. Amanda is also 1/2 of Chimera Design, a full service bi-coastal interior design firm she shares with her decade-long RISD collaborator and business partner Daisy Hook, based in Hudson Valley NY.
Amanda’s creative work has since evolved much more deeply into the exploration and intersection of furniture and sculpture and how materials and building techniques can tell a story, or influence a person or space. Amanda enjoys making her own rules about design, often creating pieces that challenge what we know to be familiar, comfortable, and safe. She enjoys creating room for herself to explore the idea of unconventional practices that can evoke new modes of interaction and understanding from whoever is interfacing with her work.
Amanda often investigates her ideas by utilizing client work to experiment with concepts, explore new materials, and try bespoke fabrication methods influenced and built upon by the research and experience that she brings to the table. Amanda’s background in the fine arts combined with her professional experience and design training in architecture gives her a fine-tuned and unique lens when she works with clients. This allows her to be a creative force and conduit that connects all parties during a project. Whether it’s to build out a branded office space, a personal residence, wine bar, or local deli. Amanda’s 10 years of experience have given her a robust roster of projects and clients which she continues to build upon today.
Chimera Design, Hudson, NY, US, Co-Founder, Principal Designer
OTHRSPACE, Los Angeles, CA, US, Principal Designer
Interior Design Studio, offering commercial, and high end residential design services.
Studio Becky Carter, Oakland, CA, US, Interior Designer
I worked closely with Becky and Sara, assisted during photoshoots, sourced art work, assisted with stylings, and managed material library. Our projects included both Residential and Commercial work around the Bay Area and New York.
Garcia Tamjidi Architecture + Design, San Francisco, CA, US, Designer, FFE specialist
My work included interior design and FF&E for high-end commercial o ce spaces and residential homes. Other work included furniture design, managing a physical material library, a digital furniture database, staging/ assisting photoshoots, on-site installations, preparing CDs and permit sets, as well as interfacing with product reps.
Kava Massih Architects, Berkeley, CA, US, Designer
I participated in designing a 400,000 sq ft commercial space for live/work art lofts in the Arts District of LA. My work included designing main cirulation paths, lighting plans, unit entrances, an art gallery, mail room, and furnished interior schemes. Other work included physical+digital model making, material sourcing, material boards, project imagery, CDs, and ADA compliant designs.
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI, US, Bachelors, Interior Architecture
I have a BFA in Interior Architecture, focused on adaptive re-use.
California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, US, Summer Atelier
CCA’s Summer Atelier is a noncredit, nonresidential program that offers students who completed their freshman year of high school by June 2018 the opportunity to immerse themselves in art making on our Oakland and San Francisco campuses.
You hone your skills, learn new concepts and techniques, and meet others from around the Bay Area who share your interest in art. Then, at the conclusion of the program, you'll participate in a student exhibition.
2009-2015, Scholarship
RISD Scholarship based on merit
2013, Grant
Independent study travel grant, to study Mexican Architecture.
Barbara Lee US Congress Award; Art For America. Berkeley, 2009, 2nd Place
Art competition sponsored by the US Congress, winner got awarded a trip to Washington and their piece hung in the Capitol.
Berkeley High Photo Contest, Berkeley 2009, 1st Place
Photography award given to me out of 3300 students included a gift certificate to local photography store, and materials.
Ed Wood Memorial Art Scholarship, Albany 2008, 1st Place
Awarded $1,500 to further my art education, Award was given to the most promising art student. I used scholarship money to attend the California College Of The Arts Summer Atelier, in Oakland CA.
RISD travel grant, Grant
Independent study travel grant
