Two Tone vase small designed by Daniel Michalik

Daniel Michalik is a designer and design educator with a furniture and product design studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His work focuses on researching and expanding overlooked materials to create objects that explore the intersections of material, culture and manufacturing.

For almost two decades, Daniel has explored new applications for cork, an engaging material with vast implications for healthier perspectives on design, agriculture and manufacturing. His New York City studio is dedicated to unlocking new material potential, exploring the deepest potentials of cork as an unusual natural material, allowing it to perform in new ways, and as no other material can.