WINDSOR FLIP-TABLE
Gorgeous dining table, epic bench—sometimes having multiple personalities is a good thing. With ‘dipped’ split finish legs designed to fall somewhere between a Colonial windsor chair and a baroque baluster; a bleached shift in the expected dark stained mahogany finish to a matte maple; and a deco top/back in a burled maple—this transformer is more than meets the eye.
Windsor Flip-table Chair Prototype
Windsor Drop Leaf Console Prototype
Some background: The table chair dates back to around 1650, being cited in both England and America. It became popular due to its dual function and ability to be pushed to the wall when not in use. The combo has also been called a hutch table and monk’s bench—although monks consistently deny any involvement.
Base: solid maple construction, top: maple burl veneer. Matte varnish finish, painted feet. 78Lx42Wx30”H
GUSTAV SIDE TABLE
If Milo Baughman’s work in the 1970’s could have crossed paths with King Gustav III of Sweden on his way back from Versailles (in the 1700’s), I’d imagine it’d look a lot like this. With its book-matched burl wood skin and seductive scroll cut faces, this one-eyed monster is anything but.
A graphic black walnut burl veneer wrapped box punctured with a scroll shape more akin to ornamented French chair backs and topped with honed calacatta marble.
20Lx20Wx26”H
Shagreen finish. The Louvre, Paris
NEO
Simple shapes and profiles inspired by Sir John Soane’s dive into neo-Georgian was obviously at play here—I just can’t explain how the result is so modern. I guess Rome was modern at one point in time…
NEO 2
NEO 3
A Roman reduction of architectural elements (get it? -like boiled down. sorry, too far?) re-assembled to create a portly pedimented side table with a slight attitude, made of ambrosia maple and stained turquoise. 3 variations: closed cabinet with inset top, open cabinet with 3” thick bubble glass top or their taller sibling, the podium.
22Lx22Wx27”H
KICKSTAND
BLACK WALNUT SLAB DESK
An impressive Black Walnut slab nearly 3” thick with deep sapwood undercuts balanced on a tripod of planks in the spirit of George Nakashima. Private commission currently in fabrication.
70Lx26Wx30H. Locally made to order. Each desk is unique and designed around slab selection.
THE ASSISTANT
Taking its queues from Swedish mail sorting desks, this stone topped desk and hutch feels like a relic that’s perfectly suited for today.
Tapered and rotated square legs hold a generous pencil drawer below a honed arabescato marble top. The side wings of the hutch creates a sense of privacy while also adding stability. Poplar base with a two coat finish of oil based black paint on a walnut stain.
60Lx24Wx52H, 30” desk height.
THE CAPTAIN
American Colonial furniture gets a bad rap—I blame the Holiday Inn.
If you throw out the diluted junk from China and strip off the layers of dark glossy stain what’s left is the blood, sweat and tears of some pretty talented designers and furniture makers. Made of white oak and finished in a matte wax, the Captain’s Desk is an assembly of clever Colonial details and carving tricks that have a home in America’s Seaports as well as a Sicilian Baroque villa.
60Lx24Wx34H
Concept Sketch
The over-lacquered oak prototype
CHESTERFIELD BED
Chesterfield sofas are as comfortable as you’d imagine 1850 England to be. They’re hard, bulky, hard to sit in and usually full of crumbs… but they sure are handsome.
So let’s keep the chesterfield appeal and move it to the bedroom. Slenderize its bulk using bent plywood construction seen in the Mid-Century design movement and add some sex appeal with bullion fringe that dates back to the 1600’s. The resulting shelter-form headboard will help you fall asleep and tufting a modern stripe will ensure that the upholsterer keeps his lights on.
Concept watercolor
FEDERAL POP-ART
We’re not as tough as our 18th Century American counterparts. They slept in beds made of native hardwoods carved into precise geometry, elaborate scrollwork and intricate profiles--and let's face it, wood is hard and those shapes can be sharp.
What to do with our fragile little heads that adore that refined ornament so much? Slip cover it like it’s the 1940’s, but in the oldest textile known to man, felted wool. Pressed not sewn, the heavyweight, industrial wool ensures durability and adds extra sound absorption. Custom tinted color blocked felt combined with the graphic Federal scroll shape takes this revolutionary bed from Washington to Warhol.
Concept painting for a Midtown Manhattan hotel
THE SLAB
At nearly ten feet wide, this live edge Black Walnut headboard is as dramatic as it gets. Floating angular Gio Ponti-esque nightstands flank the cantilevered bed, keeping clutter and cords hidden. To make the headboard more move-in friendly, two expressed vertical joints allow for a set of ‘leaves’ to be added to either side—connected only with bleached walnut ties.
Currently in fabrication
THE CABINET
Eighteen lockable cubbies, two bookcases tucked into each side, lighting, wings, a canopy and the flexibility to accommodate two twin beds or a queen—this is the Swiss army knife of headboards (complete with a skeleton key). Custom designed.
camelback
Native to the steppes of Central Asia, this camelback has two humps on its back, in contrast to the single-humped dromedary camelback. There are two million of these known to exist mainly in the domesticated form.
It’s long, wooly coat varies in color from dark brown to sandy beige. A mane and beard of long hair occurs on the neck and throat.. wait, I think I have something mixed up.
Hard-backed with a loose bench seat upholstered in a waxed cotton on unfinished white oak spool legs with tack and ribbon finishing.
Original Concept Sketch
Prototype. Peck Slip, South Street Seaport. NYC
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Oxidized maple Side Table
Caption pending, but don’t you want one?
Prototype. Peck Slip, South Street Seaport. NYC
THE WASHSTAND
A pair of solid walnut washstands (with plumbing) stripped of their typical Victorian ornament, distilled to a graphic Baroque scroll drawer front and deeply turned spool legs. A blue & white ceramic Chinese vessel sink sits atop a honed calacatta slab.
The yet to be installed mirrors are custom plaster frames and flanked by two storage towers.
Private Commission.
FARM VANITY
A simple yet refined painted sink console with beaded raised panels, lambs tongue corners, nickel hardware and a honed calacatta counter.
Private Commission.
neo-greco
SOLID BRONZE VANITY
MEDICI BAR
A carved calacatta marble bar/counter front inspired by Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel—originally designed for a hotel in wood, painted in a black lacquer.
THE CABINET WALL
Storage solution, with options. A rolling library ladder and high pull out shelves for those hard to reach cabinets; flat files at the base for paper based collections.
LAMP No.1
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A stoneware table lamp finished in a floating blue glaze with a brushed brass foot based on French turnings from the late 1700’s.
