“A friend once described, not unadmiringly, Michael Manwaring’s work as “soft,” perhaps meaning that it evokes a certain nostalgic mellowness, the bittersweet glow of a Sunday sunset in California. This may be the initial impression from many of his designs, but their poignancy should also trigger a warning light: their romantic veil is stretched over some very sharp edges. No work of his is a one-liner that can be taken in and discarded at a glance”.  Paolo Polledri, Curator of Architecture and Design, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art