Awards and affiliations

  • Overall Winner- Golden Fleece Award 2009

  • SELECTED: PORTFOLIO Critical Selection 2019 to 2022

  • Selected by the Michael Angelo Foundation for inclusion in the Homo Faber Guide 2019 -present

Exhibitions

  • 2022 Golden Fleece 21st Anniversary, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath

  • 2022 Made in Ireland, Farmleigh House

  • 2021 Made in Ireland, NCG Kilkenny,

  • 2019 Surface Matters, Dublin Castle; Artesania Catalunya CCAM, Barcelona, Spain and National Design and Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

  • 2019 Irish Design Works, Tribeton, Merchant Road, Galway, Ireland

  • 2009 Cream of Irish Design, RDS Art and Interiors show, Ballsbridge, Dublin
    2009 Organic Geometry, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
    2008 Image of Longing, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
    2008 PORTFOLIO at the Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, England
    2008 You'll Never Walk Alone, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland     
    2006 Interior Design Show, RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland
    2005 Create, Fota House, Fota, Co. Cork, Ireland

Clients

  • Department of Foreign Affairs

  • Office of Public Works

  • The National Library of Ireland

  • Dublin City University

  • Holy Island Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Firth of Clyde Scotland;

  • Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Eskdalemuir, Scotland;

  • National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

  • Work is housed in numerous private collections nationally and internationally

PANELS

  • Member of the Judging Panel - RDS Craft Awards - 2020-22

  • External Examiner - GMIT Letterfrack, Galway, Furniture Design and Manufacture Degree, 2007-2009

Award winning furniture maker Stevan Hartung’s work is guided by the belief that craftsmanship should be inseparable from good design. Over twenty years of experience in furniture making has only increased his love for working with wood.

“Much of my work starts with a particular piece of wood, It could be a particular characteristic of the wood that gives me an idea, whether that is an idea for a cabinet or another piece of furniture. And even if I start with something from a drawing board what I produce may have evolved from how it originally looked on the paper. Change, even subtle change is an ongoing process throughout the creation of a piece.”

Widely traveled in Asia, the simplicity and coherency of Oriental crafts has influenced Hartung’s approach to design. “I am interested in simplifying the forms of cabinets, condensing the visual language to its component elements of line, shape, colour and texture.”
Hartung uses both native and exotic timbers in his furniture and the scale of his work ranges from bespoke residential commissions to large scale installations.