Working primarily in wood, Ingemar Hagen‑Keith creates objects that blur the line between form and personality. His work explores familiarity, gesture, and use, inviting emotional connection through playful, minimal designs shaped by everyday interaction.
Ingemar Hagen-Keith is a designer and artist primarily working in wood, whose work is guided by the harmony of animated gesture and refined form and focuses on minimalism and familiarity.
He received his BFA in Furniture Design in 2018 from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2021, he went on to join the team at COLONY, a cooperative gallery and design studio in New York, where he worked as an Interior Designer and was Designer in Residence. After moving back to his hometown of Portland, OR in 2024, Hagen-Keith was selected as the winery’s fifth Artist in Residence.
As part of his residency, he worked the 2024 harvest season and participated in the winemaking process firsthand, immersing himself in a wholly new experience. He continues his work in the Portland-based furniture and object design studio he founded, Marmar Studio. Marmar Studio is fascinated by the aesthetics of cuteness and on a mission to create the delightful and sincere – “designing inanimate objects you can’t help but animate.” Hagen-Keith’s work has been featured in Design Milk, Curbed, Business of Home, Elle Decor, and Leibal Magazine.
