For more than 25 years, this expert has been engaged in the appraisal of colonial to contemporary silver, furniture, ceramics, maps, and paintings. She graduated from the University of Texas and completed postgraduate studies with a Christies-associated program at the Royal College of Art in London. She has appraised collections for the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, Marriott Bermuda, and the Bank of Butterfield; she has also worked closely with the Bermuda National ...
This expert is a designer and educator. He is a partner at a company dedicated to sustainable practices in design for production. He is principal of a design studio. He has been a member of the faculty at a RI design school in the Departments of Industrial Design, Interior Architecture and Furniture Design and previously served as interim dean of the Division of Architecture + Design. He is currently head of the Furniture Design department.
His work has been shown in ...
This expert brings 28 years of furniture industry and seating experience (including development and catalog introduction of 250+ seating and table collections and 100+ custom designs), with hands-on expertise in all aspects of furniture development, collaborative design, frame construction, commercial use and hospitality environments, warranty, care and maintenance, user inspections, all types of field issues and product support. He spent many years working right ...
This expert is an award-winning, certified interior designer and LEED Accredited Professional specializing in hospitality and residential interiors. She received her Masters of Science degree in Interior Design from Pratt Institute, and studied furniture design at the Domus Academy in Milan, Italy. She launched her career in New York City, where she led the interior design for numerous projects including the Millennium tower “ the city's first ...
This case involves a drawer at a department store that pulled through and fell on the plaintiff. At the time of the incident in question, the plaintiff was shopping for clothing in the women’s section of a popular department store.…
An forensic accounting expert witness advises on a case involving a hurricane that devastated a university hospital, despite the best efforts of FEMA to protect and mitigate damage to the building. It had multi-peril insurance coverage, for which it paid…
This case involves an individual who fell down a staircase in the lobby of a large, historic theater in South Carolina. The top several stairs of the grand staircase in the theater lobby, where the man was standing and fell…
This case involves a man who suffered a serious head injury when a swinging chair he had been sitting on failed catastrophically. The Plaintiff was a resident of the Defendant apartment home where the furniture was located. On the date…
This case takes place in California and involves a young female who worked for a furniture delivery service. In the course of her daily duties, the woman was expected to spend several hours driving one of the company’s delivery trucks.…
The plaintiff in this case was injured while attending a business dinner. The plaintiff, along with his client, were escorted to two tall stools at the bar by the restaurant’s hostess. The legs of both stools had wheels, while the stools…
This case involves an injury to a male which occurred while the male attempted to reach some boxes. Two weeks prior to the incident in question, the plaintiff purchased a chair at a large retailer. The chair featured wire legs and…
This case involves a student being asked to move furniture, resulting in injury. During the second week of summer school in an urban high school, a math teacher was told to move his remedial class to another room by noon…
This case involves a 14-month old child injured by the support bars in his crib, which collapsed and suffocated him. The child was playing in his crib when the support bars collapsed, entrapped his head, which caused the child to…