Rip Potter Design Studio
Designers and Builders of
 Fine Furniture, Fixtures, ,Stage sets, Functional Sculpture
About Us
In 1973, as a student  living and operating a custom shop in a Buckhead warehouse, I developed a keen sense of my connection to the energy of an ever-expanding Atlanta.

Early projects developed a hands-on design/build approach to my work. 
In the beginning, most of my work consisted of custom furniture commissions for Buckhead residents. Ultimately my residential clients involved me in their business projects. 

From quirky visual merchandise ideas for local boutique owners, or "atmosphere that amortizes" for local restaurants and bars, I was concept/designer-engineer/builder. When you needed an off-beat perspective on your home interior furnishing, or on your retail visual marketing...I  was the guy to go see.


The projects I worked on led to designs for various venues in Atlanta and around the country. Discos in Atlanta, N.Y.C., and Chicago; a blues club in Savannah; local musical niche clubs from bluegrass to death metal to punk - all the while interlacing the commercial projects with  my ever growing private furniture commissions. 

I found the key element threading throughout the various projects, is giving clients what they know they want, but which they can't always put into words. Hearing the client, whether it's a private commission for residential application, a commericial project, or, working with architects as fixture designer, or purely as craftsman producing the highest quality work...I seek to meet the vision.


I hope you enjoy looking through the images in the various portfolios, and  seeing the range go from ornate to slick, sculptural to bare, small scale to large.

Thanks for visiting the site. Feel free to contact me via phone or e-mail with questions, or to set up an appointment.
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Havide Shipping
Limelight  Sanctuary NYC
Limelight Chicago
Petrus
Masqurade
MetroPlex Club
Eric Quincy Tate
Recording group"Kansas"
"Youzeum"Children's Museum Missouri
U.S. Army "Patton Exhibit"
Woodstock Library
Grady Hospital
Delta Crown Room Orlando
Legacy Hotels
River Street Hotel Savannah
Mellow Mushroom Resturaunts
Great Haircuts
Excellcior Mill Resturaunt
Razzle Dazzle
Comes the Sun
Sam Flax
Peter Block Architect
Keith Sommerhour Architect
Henry Howard Smith
Harrison Design
Quantrel Mullins Design
Thomas Hancock & Witte
Jova Daniel Busby Architects
Carlsten & Associates Architects
Dan Carrither's Design 
Whimble Design
Holy Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Our Lady of the Assumption
Cathedral of St Phillip
Brothers Young Film Productions
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