I had made furniture before this chest, but not as a serious “Furniture Maker”. I had just gotten a wood shop space in the Jack London Square area of Oakland and my shop partner and I started creating pieces for an open studio we wanted to participate in that was …
I loved the idea of ruffles on a cabinet! I had done the Ruffle stool a few years earlier and had fun with the juxtaposition of flowing fabric and a block of wood. Also, it’s not a very common direction for a furniture maker to venture. I found a nice …
Made from turned legs and stretchers with a bent laminated frame and caning, this chair is light and strong, but not particularly …
The Ceramic Scale Table was the first three legged table with an egg shape that I thought of making. The process of …
This furniture piece started as a pile of redwood 1 x 4’s stacked on a job site I was working on. The …
The Curved Chair started by playing with the historical form of a “Hall Chair”, which began as an uncomfortable chair that was …
I always start with sketches. After the sketches I moved on to a scale …
Sketches, scale models, full sized drawings and sometimes full size mockups are always the starting points. After the Full sized drawing was …
