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I have a strong passion for sustainable design and practice that stems from my roots in New England and a childhood imbibed with DIY projects and crafts. I love efficiency and I am fascinated and driven by puzzling situations that call for complex sustainable solutions. Recently I have found a strong passion for furniture as an outlet to satisfy the simpler side of design. Sustainable design has been a large part of my education, yet with furniture I have found a compartmentalization that allows me, as a designer, to simplify and enjoy the process of design. Furniture has given me an outlook that runs much more organically to the needs of a user. The craft has allowed me to see the complexity in simplicity and the advantages that relationship has with creating products that are beautiful and fulfilling in their nature.
Front Drawer Closed
Front Drawer Open
Back
Front Drawer Closed
Otomo Nightstand
This was a semester project for my senior year furniture design course as an undergrad. It had many forms before this but ultimately I decided to go with a more danish modern look, however I wanted to give that an american twist. My play on that is the local sourcing of highly figured wood as a palet for a very simple form. The body is curly maple with walnut trim and feet. While the drawer is a make up of spaulted maple, walnut, curly maple, and a little cherry. To hold it all together the back is a combination of scrap curly maple I had around the shop.
Spring 2015
Zebra Box
As a warm-up project this box was meant for my mother as a candle holder, however it has been everything from a napkin holder to a sewing box. The body is made up of scraps of birch, maple, and cherry with a brown maple top.
Spring 2015
Front
Front
Left Isometric
Front
Bike Shelf
This was my first furniture piece in my junior year as an undergrad. I was trying create a stylish storage solution for bike commuters. I felt a piece of furniture would play well with a bike if I could communicate the same feeling one gets from parking their car in thier driveway/garage after a long commute. The shelf has a deep cubbie for storage and a back cutout for mail and books. The body is made from Vermont curly maple and walnut. This was also my first go at the CNC machine we had in the shop. I modeled the piece completely in Vectorworks and from their had the sides cut out. The back pins were done by hand, as was the top and bottom.
Spring 2014