Artist Biography
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
I have grown up in the San Francisco bay area all my life and have been exposed to fantastic architecture and furniture since I was a toddler. My father worked endlessly on our home which led me to take up an interest in furniture when I was in 7th grade.
My projects started out as simple boxes but by 8th grade I was building cabinets and screen doors. By the time I was a senior in high school, I was experimenting with new woods such as padouk and techniques like veneering over birch plywood to make a jewelry box and a clock.
When it became time to decide what to do for college, I decided to major in architecture. After focusing on the smaller, more intimate world of furniture, it seemed like a natural progression to move to the larger, spacial world. As much as I liked my architectural education, I still remained partial to furniture making and I built some of my best work during my first year.
My first two projects were the Japanese Lamp and the Lacewood Picture Frame where
I started doing more hand work than ever before. I also started using joints that
could be taken apart, specifically the through-
The real explosion in my work began when I met one of my roommates who built a custom
computer case for himself. Before this time, I had little interest in computers
or computer cases but this discovery that the beige box on or under the desk could
be a work of art changed how I saw technology's place in the world of furniture.
We started building a new case that he designed, out of copper plumbing pipe. It
was to be water-