CONCORD – Claire Kurens, formerly of the Llewellyn Park community in West Orange, and of South Orange, died Saturday, August 9, 2014 at the Elizabeth de Rham Hospice Home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was 85. Claire was the beloved wife of the late Philip J. Kurens, the founder and owner of the furniture manufacturer, Art Metal. Claire was born in 1928 in New York City to Russian and Polish immigrants, the late Yale and Anna Cohen. She attended Queens public schools and graduated from The Bronx High School in 1946. After high school, Claire worked as a secretary for a New York City law firm, where she one of its clients -- her future husband, Philip J. Kurens, who at 25 had founded the manufacturing business, then named Hillside Metal Products. They married in 1950 and moved to the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where their first child, Hope Laurie, was born. As Philip's business grew, Phil and Claire moved their family to New Milford, New Jersey and then South Orange, before moving to the community of Llewellyn Park in West Orange, where they lived for twenty-five years. In the early 1960s, Philip garnered recognition for his furniture business, including admission to the business organization Young Presidents Organization (YPO). The organization fueled the couples' lifelong passion for travel, international politics and the arts, and their travels took them throughout the world, were they often met with leading political and arts figures. Mrs. Kurens was an avid supporter of the arts in general and of all things related to her beloved New York City, including its museums, opera, restaurants, lectures and interior design showrooms. Claire was a gifted decorator, and a devoted collector of paintings and sculpture native to the many countries she and Philip had visited. Claire is survived by her children, H. Laurie Kurens of Cambridge, MA; Judith A. Kurens of New York City, NY; and Stephen R. Kurens and his wife Debra A. Jensen of Philadelphia, PA, a grandson, Gabriel Kurens of Cambridge, MA, and two step-grandchildren, Mikaela and Benjamin Jensen-Roseman. She was the sister of Marcia Podell, of Pompton Plains, NJ. Services will be private. Arrangements are under the care of the Dee Funeral Home of Concord. To share a remembrance in Mrs. Kurens guest book visit www.deefuneralhome.com.