by
admin
on
Apr 23, 2012 • Comments Closed 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...
by
admin
on
Apr 17, 2012 • Comments Closed 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...
by
admin
on
Apr 9, 2012 • Comments Closed 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,...
by
admin
on
Mar 30, 2012 • Comments Closed 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...
by
admin
on
Mar 5, 2012 • Comments Closed Continuing my exploration with the solid hex rod – a set of side tables. The design is simply a material variation on the Sling Side Table style I’ve used before. For these pieces I used CVG Fir – Clear Vertical Grain Fir. This stuff is actually fairly pricey, comparable to walnut, as it’s harder to procure...
by
admin
on
Feb 2, 2012 • Comments Closed I collect a lot of things, one of them being vintage 35mm slides. I get them from antique malls, thrift stores, estate sales and occasionally ebay. For the past year, I’ve been digitally scanning my collection and categorizing them according to theme. A while back I encountered a batch of photos from a outdoor party...
by
admin
on
Jan 13, 2012 • Comments Closed 5 Chairs, 5 days. No drawings. Gesture sculpture – kind of like gesture drawing. Instagram documentation and immediate feedback. Here is chair #5: With this chair, I wanted to find a line that was in between a lounge chair and a dining chair. I guess the proper term for that is a side chair, or occasional...
by
admin
on
Jan 12, 2012 • Comments Closed 5 Chairs, 5 days. No drawings. Gesture sculpture – kind of like gesture drawing. Instagram documentation and immediate feedback. Here is chair #4: With this chair, I wanted to move away from the lounge chair aesthetic and attempt a more upright chair – like a dining chair. A chair, chair. As I mention above, upon completion...
by
admin
on
Jan 11, 2012 • Comments Closed 5 Chairs, 5 days. No drawings. Gesture sculpture – kind of like gesture drawing. Instagram documentation and immediate feedback. Here is chair #3: On this chair, I was still pushing a lounge chair type of aesthetic, but I really wanted to break out of the style from the 2 previous chairs. I definitely pushed up against...
by
admin
on
Jan 10, 2012 • Comments Closed 5 Chairs, 5 days. No drawings. Gesture sculpture – kind of like gesture drawing. Instagram documentation and immediate feedback. Here is chair #2: Again, with the constraint of working in under 2 hours – or as quickly as possible. It’s interesting to see the feedback from the instagram post. Even at day 2 of the...
by
admin
on
Jan 9, 2012 • Comments Closed This project didn’t exactly start as a project, it started as a single piece – an experiment. I’d always been intimidated with the idea of making a chair, so one night I decided to just go for it. And rather than sit down with pen and paper, sketch it out with a protractor and ruler,...
by
admin
on
Dec 6, 2011 • Comments Closed This is a project that I made this semester in school. It started out as a wire frame design for a pendant lamp – but then I thought, Hey! What if I make it into something a bit more architectural in scale. So I did. The rad thing about this piece is that it’s modular....
