Emily Thurman seemed to appear on the scene last spring from out of nowhere. One minute, she was quietly building a successful interiors practice from her home base in Salt Lake City, and the next she was in New York launching Hundō, a spectacularly assured debut furniture collection, realized in collaboration with a handful of friends and international fabricators in rich materials like bronze, onyx, ebonized cherry, and cast glass. Thurman’s work is often personal; for her debut collection, she reworked a daybed that once belonged to her grandmother in horsehair and bronze. But she’s primarily interested in how objects exert their influence upon us — how they affect daily ritual, imprint upon memory, and invite spontaneous interaction. This year will see Thurman debut larger experiments in cast glass, as well as a hardware collection with Petra and her first collection of jewelry, a natural extension of her deeply sculptural practice.