Steve Morris Designs

Steve Morris has an affinity for metal. He works steel and copper, bronze and aluminum into sculptural pieces to decorate both interior and exterior spaces. He adds glass or wood, and creates furnishings and lights. His stainless steel staircases, often mixed with glass and wood, make sweeping visual statements that turn ascending and descending them [...]

As a designer and metalworker, Steve Morris is renowned for taking an elegant modernist approach to all his work, whether architectural metalwork, interior design, lighting, furniture, gates, or sculpture. But as a 25-year resident of the Hudson Valley who lives and works near the area’s two most important water resources—respectively, the Ashokan Reservoir and the [...]

Art will out, they say — and it’s certainly true for metal-work artist Steve Morris. In high school, he’d worked with a jeweler friend of his parents who needed help. That led to an apprenticeship, but when the grown-up world beckoned, Morris began building houses. “I was doing a renovation for Pat Metheny when he [...]

“I just kind of have a knack for putting things together,” says Steve Morris, the owner of Steve Morris Designs on Route 9W in Port Ewen. The self-taught artist and draftsperson, who works mostly in metal but will create objects with other materials if a project grabs him, has designed and fabricated—and often installed—everything from [...]