Personal Work
Record Table — 2011
A small display table for a personal record collection, which encourages browsing and discovery of new albums. Fabricated from Douglas Fir milled to ½” x ½” tongue and groove strips, then laminated into solid panels. Box joints at the corners give the piece its final form. Finished with shellac and wax over a light orange stain.
Chareau Table — 2010
My first metalworking project, completed as part of a fourth year furniture design class. Prompted to replicate a piece of classic Modernist furniture, I chose a bent-plate side table designed by Pierre Chareau. The techniques of cutting, bending, welding, grinding and polishing learned during this project have led to an ongoing interest with steel fabrication that continues to today.
Folded Chair — 2010
A chair designed and fabricated as the final project of a fourth year furniture design class. The form of this chair was conceived as a continuous line of tube steel, shaped into a narrow rectangle. This line bends and twists along its width, and is welded at points where it crosses itself. Once stabilized, the flat shape is folded around itself to form legs, feet, sides, a back and seat-then welded again for structural rigidity.
Sandwich Tables — 2012
A series of small coffee tables fabricated from 'reclaimed' solid-core doors. After removing the factory paint finish to expose the bare Masonite below, I inserted strips of oak, mahogany, redwood, maple or pine around the edges. These tables are finished with a light wax over varnish, and were sold locally and online. Hairpin legs are fabricated of 3/8" rod by Steve Campos of Steel Fabricated Arts in Northeast LA and DefineModern in Pasadena.
Backyard Treehouse — 2011
A unique project in West LA to design and build a family’s backyard treehouse with three kids. After graduating from USC I was commissioned by a family with 2, 4 and 6 year-old kids to build a a treehouse in their backyard. Working together on different designs, we finally settled on a small platform with low kid-sized walls, and a roof that wrapped the top from front to back. We then built the treehouse over the following few months with a friend’s help.
Islais Channel — 2011
Linework from a research project centered on the Islais Channel area of San Francisco.
