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.

FRENCH ARMOIRE

My most recent commission was to design and build an armoire reminiscent of the 17th Century French armoire, but with a modern, minimalist easthetic of my own. The entire piece is built of walnut and stands over six feet high by four feet wide. The solid wood panel in the center of the doors was carved by hand.

BILBOQUET

Bilboquet is the culmination of a two week workshop I did at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado this summer. I studied with Donald Fortescue, the head of the furniture and design program at CCA, who taught me how to make coopered forms out of wood. Coopering is a traditional method used for making barrels, but has since been developed into a more exact and sophisticated technique employed by sculptors and furniture makers. The end result being that one can create almost any radially symmetrical form out of wood, without having to use a lathe. This piece is the first of many to come...

MEINTS COMMISSION

The design for this bed frame was directly inspired from a dining bench that I had made several months past.  My clients wanted me to replicate many of the same features including the butterflied head-board and tapered legs, but this time, instead of inlaying the supportive butterflies in the back and with the same wood species, I made the butterflies a feature in the front of the headboard and used ebony so that they created a stronger contrast.  I also used the ebony as plugs in the feet.