PAULOWNIA CLOSET

Shoji inspired closet, dresser and live edge desk built with Paulownia

WALNUT TRESTLE TABLE WITH LIVE EDGE

A six foot long dining table built with Eastern Black Walnut, this piece evolved from a design I had orginally created for Trou Normand restaurant, but ended up building for a client in San Diego.

LIVING TABLE

The San Francisco startup Human DX commissioned me to build a centerpiece table for their headquarters in the Outer Mission.  I was given a lot of creative freedom, so I seized the opportunity to design a piece that utilizes steam bending to bend a White Oak base fastened together with copper rivets.  A half inch thick piece of oval shaped glass provides a flat surface for the table, while allowing the base to be viewed from all angles unobstructed.

SCULPTED SLIDING DOOR

This commission is an 8 foot high sliding door for a client in San Francisco.  The door is framed in Black Walnut and on both sides of the door panel is an improvised Redwood relief sculpture.

STONES THROW

For my latest project I was asked to design and build an entire bar for a restaurant on Russian Hill called Stones Throw.  This entailed creating the bar-back shelving, bar and bar face, as well as a small island bar table.  Almost all of the wood used is reclaimed vertical grain Douglass Fir floor boards from an old pipe organ factory in San Francisco. All metal work was fabricated by Sam Derouin of Axial to Terminal.  Finishing work is credited to Steve Bauer of Baumar Custom Finishing.

REDWOOD AND STEEL OUTDOOR SEATING AT THE PRESIDIO SOCIAL CLUB

Commissioned by Ray Tang, owner of the Presidio Social Club, I was hired to design and build fifty linear feet of bench seating to enclose the restaurant's outdoor patio area.  The project involved working with some beautiful old growth redwood sourced from Evan Shively and metalwork custom fabricated by Lawrence LaBianca.

SHAKER INSPIRED SHELVES AND DESK

This commission was intended as a matching pair - a desk wih drawer and hanging shelves above.  Both pieces were built from Walnut and designed specificially for my client's guest bed room.  The book shelf was a particularly exciting piece for me, as it was inspired directly from a set of Shaker hanging shelves, which were traditionally hung by a rope from pegs in the wall.  In my interpretation, I used a live-edge piece of Walnut sap-wood, mounted on to the wall, as the support for the shelves.  The desk below also relates with a sap-wood drawer front.