Noho Next – Rod + Weave Chairs
hehre I made this pair of Rod+Weave chairs specifically for the NohoNext exhibition curated by Sight Unseen. The inspiration for this pair started where a lot of my inspiration comes from – directly from the material itself. So I stumbled across these 2 green leather hides at my local leather supply store and I new...
Rod + Weave V3.0
Here is the latest and greatest version of my Rod + Weave chairs. This design traces back to Chair No 2 of my 5 Chairs project from last year. I dropped the height of the arm rests and made walnut landing pad. I used Black 11oz American Buffalo Shoulder leather for the weave, and I...
PORTLAND BAZAAR!
Come on down this weekend to the Portland Bazaar! I’ll be debuting a new bottle opener design, a collaboration with my studio mate Theresa Arrison, and I’ll also have a ton of indigo dyed bandanas available as well.
The Little Dude – Low Table
The Little Dude low table emerged for me for as a response to the Herman Miller low table designed by the Eames’. The odd thing is, this idea emerged because I saw a photograph of one of these tables in a magazine and I thought to myself, what did the Eames’ call those little dudes?...
Para-Sling Coffee Table
Hopefully I’ll be better at naming my children than I am with naming my pieces. Ugh. It has parallel shelving, but then it also has a leather sling – Para-Sling. Why not? This piece started like a lot of pieces do – an open ended commission request. The request went something like this: “My friend...
Rod + Weave. Technicolor Edition
These are probably my 2 most favorite things I’ve ever made. This was a special project for my dear friends at Poketo – they are opening a brick and mortar store this summer! I wanted to create 2 unique chairs that would communicate both my style and stay consistent with Poketo’s brand identity. As you...
1000 Cubic Feet of Radness
This is the installation I constructed for my end of the year show for my first year in my MFA program. I tried to present my work in a total context – that is, taking all the dynamics which comprise my “work” and put them on display. I’m constantly making, thinking, making, looking, reading, thinking,...
Bar of Soap – Swallowtail Coffee Table
The vast majority of my work is a response to material. Whether the material is purchased off the shelf or found in a dumpster, the work of transforming that material into an applied art object is in response. I picked up this thin slab of walnut before I had an exact project or plan for...
Outdoor Lounge Chair – Perforated Steel
This chair compiles my experience with perforated steel and my recent fascination with this solid hex rod. After a succession of indoor chairs, I decided to make an outdoor chair with a lounge profile. This chair is designed for chilling out hard core. Global Chilling. Every chair I’ve built definitely has a beverage to go...
LBCF Build
I was recently commissioned to design and build a few pieces for some friends at a church in Long Beach, California (Long Beach Christian Fellowship – LBCF). The pieces were for the the foyer/lobby area that has a Italian villa meets modern sort of vibe – stonework columns, plaster-esque textured paint in earth tones, arc-vaulted ceilings,...
Rod + Weave
This chair is a variation on Chair 2 from the 5 Chairs Project. The chair frame is exactly the same, but I decided to do away with the sling style and go with a more straightforward weave approach. I used the same 5/8″ solid hex rod steel as the rest of the pieces in the 5 chairs...
