About The Designer:
	In addition to the Fauna collection of soft goods and balsa prints that he created for Areaware, Ross Menuez has designed everything from a small airplane in the 1980's while still in school in New York City to kitchen, office, and home furnishings, to commercial interiors for shops and restaurants throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan. Menuez also founded Salvor Projects in 2003, for which he was a finalist in the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards in the Product Design category.