Responding to a market need for well-designed, contemporary cabinet hardware, Jerome designs the Antico line of hand-cast solid brass knobs and pulls, some with inlays, and has them produced in Italy.

Evelyn creates do-it-yourself finger puppet kits as a fund-raiser for her daughter’s nursery school and they are later sold through ERA and featured in House and Garden. ERA outgrows the showroom on Melrose and moves to Beverly Boulevard in the heart of the design trade and across from Herman Miller.

Experimenting with a new material, hydrostone, Evelyn creates a series of nursery rhyme bas-relief plaques and functional three-dimensional pieces.