A Family of Pieces With One Language
I was staring at a stack of rejected walnut chair legs in my studio last Tuesday—each one marked with a sharpie note about a failed taper or an aggressive curve—when…
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Water Based Lacquer and Grain Raise
I was staring at a walnut sideboard last Tuesday, the kind of piece that should have been a triumph, but instead looked like it had been sprayed with a cheap,…
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Marking Which Way Up Every Part Goes
I spent three years in a high-end production studio where we used expensive, laser-etched aluminum tags for every single component, as if a piece of metal could somehow compensate for…
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A Delivery That Would Not Fit
I remember standing in my studio three years ago, the smell of sawdust and stale espresso hanging heavy in the air, staring at a crate that had arrived looking more…
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Where Half Built Work Lives
I was clearing out a corner of the studio last Tuesday when I tripped over a stack of birch plywood offcuts that had been sitting there since 2014. They weren’t…
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Hardwax Oil on a Tabletop
I was standing over a walnut dining table last Tuesday, staring at a patch of wood that looked dull, thirsty, and frankly, ruined. My instinct—the one honed by twenty years…
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Sustainability Beyond the Certificate
I was staring at a stack of discarded walnut offcuts last Tuesday, thinking about the sheer amount of marketing jargon I’ve had to swallow over the last twenty years. Everyone…
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Shellac for Repairability
I was standing over a walnut sideboard last Tuesday, staring at a patch of milky, uneven cloudiness that shouldn’t have been there, wondering why I hadn’t just used a modern…
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Making Things Is an Economic Argument
I spent most of yesterday morning staring at a rejected walnut chair leg—one of the many ghosts in my studio—because I couldn’t decide if the taper was too aggressive or…
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Keeping One Reference Face for Six Weeks
I remember standing in my studio three years ago, surrounded by a graveyard of bent walnut and misaligned joinery, staring at a prototype that looked perfect on paper but felt…
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