Erica Sellers, co-founder of Studio S II, joins us for Friday Five to tell us about her beloved grandmother, her favorite artworks, a creative duo + more.

A self-described mad scientist, Erica Sellers has merged art and design since she was a child. She invented contraptions and imaginary worlds, drawing or painting to let her many ideas take shape.
While the product designer and builder has had many supporters, none was more influential than her grandmother Elsa, or ?Nonni? to Sellers. Eccentric and generous, Elsa taught Sellers how to play five-card poker, telling her it would come in handy one day. She also nurtured her granddaughter?s love of architecture. ?I have fond memories of her driving me around her neighborhood in Palm Beach, Florida to look at all the mansions,? Sellers says. ?She?d park right out in front of them so I could sit and sketch.? Erica Sellers \ Photo: M. Cooper
After earning a degree in industrial design from Rhode Island School of Design, Sellers? ventures included a stint as head of production for conceptual artist Tavares Strachan, a fellow RISD alum. Her vision for his installations at the Venice Biennale and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art garnered international acclaim.
Sellers and longtime collaborator Jeremy Silberberg founded Studio S II in 2020. The pair works on a range of projects, from interiors to exhibition design. Whether experimenting with glass, aluminum, or maple wood, Sellers incorporates elements of kink, queern...