Salvatore Gulino - Bio

The year was 1996. On a cold winter night in Lincoln Park, Michigan, Salvatore Gulino Jr. was born on his sister’s 8th birthday. From then on Sal loved to appropriate anything from birthdays to trash on the side of the road. A curiosity about how things work and what gets us “hooked” drove him to study Industrial Design at The College for Creative Studies. There he developed commercial and hand-craft objects, And most notably his process of building furniture with found objects. Sal has communicated consumer products in retail sales, repaired products as a handyman in the trades, and built products as an industrial designer in profession. These professional practices have all contributed to Sal's fascination with the art of selling, the craft of fixing, and the design of function; which he distills into his process of building functional works of art furniture.