Michael Scarborough is a designer and artisan working in a broad range of media and techniques. The son of a naval officer and the great-grandson of a mosaic artist from northern Italy, he spent his formative years in the American South, Japan, and on the North Shore of Long Island. His father built him his first workbench when he was five years old, thus initiating a life-long love affair with all forms of craftsmanship and the decorative arts.

A twenty-five year "detour" as an international opera singer, beginning as an apprentice with Santa Fe Opera and culminating as a soloist in Carnegie Hall, offered numerous opportunities for visits to museums, galleries, auction houses and craftsmen's studios, which provided an "un-official," but rich and wide-ranging art education. On a more "official" basis, Michael Scarborough is a graduate of the certificate program at the Institute of Classical Architecture and studied interior design at Parsons School of Design, where his passion for historical styles led one instructor to describe him as being "at the trailing edge of design."

The studio strives to use only historically accurate and, where feasible, environmentally responsible methods and materials.

Michael Scarborough's work has been exhibited at The Delaware Art Museum and Arlington National Cemetery, and can be found in private collections across America.