OPERATION 50 BAR AGRICOLE CHAIRS COMPLETE

These chairs, dubbed "Chair Agricole", I designed and built for the restaurant Bar Agricole, which opened in August of 2010. The restaurant is located at 11th and Folsom (http://www.baragricole.com/). The owner, Thad Vogler, is a cocktail specialist known for creating the bar and drink menus at The Slanted Door, Beretta, the Presidio Social Club, Coco 500 and Jardiniere.

Vogler's own restaurant, featuring a chef from Zuni Cafe, emphasizes wine and spirits. International glass sculptor, Nikolas Weinstein, has created a three-part hanging glass installation for the main dining room. The walls are made of reclaimed white oak from old whiskey barrels, as are the chairs built from cabernet-stained white oak barrels previously owned by Firestone Vineyard in Napa Valley.

EXHIBITION AT THE SUB GALLERY

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SPIDER TABLE #2

WALNUT CREDENZA

This is a customized credenza that I designed and built for Gabrielle and Hans Feuersinger.  Inspired by the Danish designers of the mid-century, I strove to create a minimalist and well-proportioned piece that would highlight specific design features of my own, such as the tapered legs of the base, the angled edge-banding, and finally the display of shallow drawers that can be arranged and rearranged to one's liking.  The majority of wood used was Eastern Black Walnut, but for all of the details such as the edge-banding and drawer faces I used California Coastal Walnut for contrast in color and figuring.

POPLAR AND ROSEWOOD MAQUETTE

KOA AND ROSEWOOD

1844 UNION STREET

This sculpture lives in a steep and narrow stairwell that has enormous white walls on both sides. Because the assent (or descent) of the stairs was the prominent characteristic of the space, I designed for the sculpture to echo, through abstraction, the step pattern moving up and down. Due to the narrowness of the stairwell, the piece is intended to be viewed from both ends, which offer distinctly different perspectives and effects. Also, because of the nature of the stairwell as a passageway for human movement, the viewer can experience the shifting dynamic of the piece as they move upwards or downwards. The sculpture is built out of a single piece of California Walnut so the grain is continuous from one end to the other.