MARK DAVID DESIGNS IS EXCLUSIVE RETAILER IN ILLINOIS OF RECYCLED GOLF CLUB JEFFREY DIAMOND SCULPTURES

MARK DAVID DESIGNS IS EXCLUSIVE RETAILER IN ILLINOIS OF RECYCLED GOLF CLUB JEFFREY DIAMOND SCULPTURES

LAKE FOREST, IL (DECEMBER 2012) - Mark David Designs, the North Shore’s newest interior design retailer, is proud to be the exclusive merchant in Illinois to sell the incredible recycled golf club artwork and structures fromJeffrey Diamond. An artist from Florida, Diamond travels to various golf courses and attends golf tours and collects used golf clubs, and transforms them into one of a kind pieces of art and functional pieces of furniture. He uses any and all clubs, and recycles roughly 75,000 golf clubs per year in his Florida studio.

Mark David Designs exclusively carries this amazing line, including a wooden driver head spinning sphere (retailed at $295), a 2-foot tall table lamp made of golf club irons ($225), and a 2-foot by 2-foot table made of putters ($350). Jeffrey Diamond is the only artist in the world to create these unique home décor pieces, with no two ever being alike.

Diamond wittily calls his collection the “man cave golf collection”, but his artwork and functional furniture is the perfect gift for any upcycled art lover or fan of the unique this holiday season. The notorious Michael Jordan even has a piece of Diamond’s work on display in his North Shore home. Most recently, a customer came in and bought a metal & wood driver turtle for renowned golfer, Jack Nicklaus.

Examples of Jeffery’s work include a sphere made out of wooden driver heads, a smaller-scale replica of the World Trade Center towers (crafted entirely from welded chrome shafts) entitled “Rethink & Rebuild”, and a giant 8-foot diameter sphere of 3,000 welded clubs that was on display in Las Vegas at a hospitality and design show, for an A&E show called “Shipping Wars.”

“My tables, lamps, and artwork are the perfect holiday gift for men. Guys hate to throw their golf clubs away, so this is the perfect solution to preserve and recycle them," Says artist Jeffrey Diamond.

Mark David is the only retailer in Illinois to sell Jeffrey Diamond’s work. The store is located at 266 E. Deerpath Rd. in Lake Forest, IL. For more information on Mark David Designs, please visit www.MarkDavidDesigns.com, or call 847-714-9970. For more information on Jeffrey Diamond, please visit www.OnTourGolfWear.com.

ABOUT MARK DAVID DESIGNS

After growing up in Springfield, IL, Mark helped to launch an interior design business in Westmont called Room by Room. He then moved to Alexandria, Virginia where he helped open an interior design business, working there for five years. Consulting there on the most prestigious home projects in the area of Old Town, he became acquainted with an array of exquisite styles. After ten years of developing his design skills and building a dedicated clientele, he is now fulfilling his dream of opening Mark David Designs in Lake Forest. He now resides in Highland Park with his family and is ecstatic to begin his new endeavor in Lake Forest.

ABOUT JEFFREY DIAMOND

Jeffrey Diamond began his artistic career creating lamps from repurposed law books, recycled seatbelts, and mailboxes as scale models of homes. He began his golf club recycling endeavor around 2000, and has since been perfecting his golf club spheres of art, and functional tables and lamps. He sells to high-end art galleries, lighting stores, gift stores, and furniture stores. He recently began selling to Nordstrom’s, and has a boutique store in Soho, New York City. Diamond graduated college with a degree in Psychology, and currently resides in Florida. For more information, please visit his website at www.OnTourGolfWear.com.