Career
He focuses on creating sustainable designs that center on living in harmony with nature and creating a comfortable future. His work often involves re-purposing and recycling and he prefers to use resources he calls Object Management Group: materials which can be seen by the casual eye to Obviously Manifest Green. Danko was born in 1949, in Washington, District of Columbia. He attended college with the intention of becoming an illustrator.
In 1971, he received an undergraduate degree in fine arts and art history from University of Maryland.
Danko"s work been curated by and is in the permanent collection of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has been featured in many books, including Objects for Use: Handmade by Design by Paul J. Smith and Furniture with Soul: Master Woodworkers and Their Craft by David Savage.
