Press & Features

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• Philadelphia Magazine

  Best Custom Outdoor Furniture (Best of Philly 2021)

  2021

  Custom outdoor benches, tables and planters in locally sourced and salvaged wood, by Brian Foster and Ernie Sesskin.

• Architectural Digest

  Go Green with These Stylish Eco-Friendly Products

  February 11, 2016

  Groundwork Home's Root Base table, made from rescued local trees by Brian Foster and Ernie Sesskin.

• Elle Decor

  A Fresh Outlook

  November 20, 2011 · By Kathleen Hackett

  A dining table by the Groundwork Group in Ashley Stark's prewar Manhattan apartment (shown with a Jean de Merry light fixture and 18th-century Italian chairs).

• Business of Home

  How this duo went from reclaimed material pioneers to successful wholesalers

  January 24, 2019 · By Robyn Smith

  A profile of Brian Foster and Ernie Sesskin: reclaimed materials, wholesale clients (including Anthropologie and Ballard Designs), and how the business has evolved since 1993.

• Business of Home

  The Sixth Borough: Inside Philadelphia's growing design scene

  November 2, 2018 · By Jeffrey Preis

  Brian Foster on how Groundwork's customer base has shifted from the suburbs into the city since 1993.

• Philadelphia Magazine

  Meet the Philly Artisans Who Have Made It Big

  May 19, 2018 · By Taylor Carson

  Groundwork Home as co-curators of American Street Showroom with Amuneal and Lostine; farm tables, benches, and signature zinc-top tables with tree-root bases.

• PhillyVoice

  Inside the design wonderland of American Street Showroom

  May 26, 2015

  Groundwork Home as a co-curator of American Street Showroom; a root-based table photographed in the space.

• Dwell

  Philadelphia Design Hub: American Street Showroom

  April 2, 2014 · By Whitney Christopher

  American Street Showroom as a collaboration among Amuneal, Brian Foster and Ernie Sesskin of Groundwork, and Lostine's Robert True Ogden.