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The NFL player\u2013turned actor Terry Crews approached his first outing as a furniture designer the same way he approaches everything he does \u2014 full-on. Never mind that he\u2019d never created a stick of furniture in the past. It was something he\u2019d always wanted to do and, now given the chance, he was running for the end zone. \u201cI don’t mind throwing myself out there, and if people don’t like it, it’s ok,\u201d says Crews. \u201cI just have to give it my best.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the gridiron of professional football to prime time TV to his latest gig designing The Terry Crews Collection for Bernhardt Design, few people have been as successful in one career as Terry Crews has in two \u2014 with a third now underway. At 49 years old, the former NFL defensive end and current star of FOX\u2019s Brooklyn Nine-Nine <\/em>attributes his success to his adeptness at embracing change. \u201cIf you think you’re going to do the same thing for your whole life, you’ve got another thing coming \u2014 the world is changing so fast,\u201d he says over the phone from Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and five kids. \u201cYou have to find a way to reinvent all the time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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While mostly known for his acting roles and stints with the Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles, Crews started with decidedly more artistic ambitions. A childhood obsession with comic-book art led to a scholarship to study graphic design, and a job as a courtroom sketch artist in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. \u201cI’m probably the biggest nerd in the world,\u201d admits Crews, whose other passions include fonts, PC gaming, Star Wars <\/em>and Saul Bass\u2013era movie posters. \u201cTwo hundred and forty pounds of nerd, that’s me,\u201d he says with a laugh. While his art career took a backseat to football, he never stopped creating, even as a pro athlete. Crews gained a reputation as a capable portrait artist, painting likenesses of fellow NFL players for extra cash when he was between teams and taking drawing classes in his spare time.<\/p>\n

Crews\u2019s third act as an industrial designer came about as the result of an encounter between the former athlete and Bernhardt\u2019s president, Jerry Helling at the Salone del Mobile, the world\u2019s foremost luxury interior design show, in Milan. Helling was looking for designers with unconventional credentials, and Terry Crews, an enthusiastic amateur who idolized mid-century legends like Eames and Corbusier, fit the bill perfectly. \u201cHe wanted someone who was outside of that world, someone who could give a fresh approach,\u201d says Crews, recalling his excitement at the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what I had.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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With characteristic boldness, Crews set out to create something both fresh and timeless, a collection that could stand alongside the works of the 20th century\u2019s greatest designers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to furniture, everything seems to be European,\u201d he says of his ideation process. \u201cI decided to come at it from a different viewpoint.\u201d The result is a collection inspired by ancient Egyptian motifs and informed by the clean lines and simple shapes of Eames and Saarinen. The Ibis sofa takes its name \u2014 and the swooping form of its back \u2014 from the outstretched wings of the ibis bird, an Egyptian sacred symbol. The Float tables and Aire bench are inspired by pebbles along the banks of the Nile, their round edges smoothed by the river\u2019s current. The Lilypad lounge chair, the star piece in The Terry Crews Collection, is a round-backed chair perched on an ovoid wooden table and looks very much like a flower growing from a lilypad. The design sprang from images Crews found of the hawk-faced Egyptian god Horus sitting on a water lily. \u201cI thought, Oh my God, that’s what furniture is all about!\u201d he says of his moment of inspiration. \u201cWhen you sit down on the Lilypad chair, you’re basically like an Egyptian sky god. It kind of hit on all cylinders.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Crews is already hard at work on his next collection for Bernhardt, due for release at New York\u2019s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in 2018. He\u2019s also got ambitions to expand into architecture, creating spaces within which his imaginative furniture can live. Another reinvention complete, Crews admits that the thing he loves most about his latest career is the same thing that got him started drawing and sketching as a kid \u2014 the idea that design, whether a comic book or a movie poster or a chair, can speak volumes. \u201cWhen you see the Star Wars <\/em>logo, you get the story right along with it,\u201d he says, recalling a favourite metaphor. \u201cI always see design as having a big narrative. That’s the thing that turns me on… It’s really about the story behind it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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By Jeremy Freed – *This article originally appeared in INSIGHT: The Art of Living | Winter 2017<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Photos: Bernhardt Design<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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