Designing a chair is is the ultimate challenge in balancing form and function. Beautiful and inviting, a chair must be as comfortable as it is visually stunning not only in the approach, but also as one ventures around every angle as well. A true functional sculpture, design succeeds when the expectation of comfort achieves its reality. This is the goal I try to accomplish in New Chair I and with New Chair II. Both created using bent wood lamination, mortise and tenon construction and aniline dyes creating an opposition of linear and curvilinear forms with dramatic contrasts in color. Wide in front and angled toward the back, the New Chair II seat is of birds eye maple and has a ‘soft’ and pleasantly comfortable seating position while New Chair I features traditionally comfortable spring and web upholstery.
NewChair I
Figured Maple, 3 legged bent wood lamination, mortise and tenon joinery, aniline dyed, traditional spring and web seat construction.
Seat, 20″ x 22″, seat height, 17″, back height 34″. . $1200.
New chair II
Mahogany ebonized, mortise and tenoned framework, birds eye maple seat and back panels, rubbed varnish finish.
Seat, 20″ x 22″, seat height, 17″, back height 34″. $1500
Lacuna Chair
Wood, 42″L x 42″W x 42″H
Figured maple, compound mortise and tenon joinery. Rubbed varnish finish. Swivel base. Based on a mathematical progression, this work is meant to evoke a dream state when utilized. When a custom designed cushion is added, it is a work of art to sit in and dream. A 3D ‘dream catcher’ of sorts. (not available )
Stars in my eyes end table
Bass wood with Australian lacewood thick veneer (band saw cut) , 24kt. Gold leaf – water method, burnished, 20” x 30” with 3/8” glass. $6000
Star Burst coffee table
Creaated in solid Poplar hardwood, using true traditional Asian hand laquear finishing techniques, incorporating layering of oils including Japan pigments, glazes, shellacs and lacquers and painted faux tortoise shell. Compound mortise and tenon joined, with 3/8 inch glass. Measures 36″ round x 16″H. (Not available )
Blades of Grass End Table
Created from 16/4, wide African mahogany. $3000
3/8” x 22” dia. Glass x 22” h. Overall 30” wide x 30” wide.
Exploring Waves series
“Nature may reach the same result in many ways. Like a wave in the physical world, in the infinite ocean of the medium which pervades all, so in the world of organisms, in life, an impulse started proceeds onward, at times, may be, with the speed of light, at times, again, so slowly that for ages and ages it seems to stay, passing through processes of a complexity inconceivable to men, but in all its forms, in all its stages, its energy ever and ever integrally present.” Nikola Tesla, (goodreads.com)
Everything is the Light“. “First was energy, then matter. Matter is created from the original and eternal energy that we know as Light . It shone, and there have been appear star, the planets, man, and everything on the Earth and in the Universe. Matter is an expression of infinite forms of Light, because energy is older than it.” (Supposed interview with Nikola Tesla, 1899, https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/nikola-tesla-everything-is-the-light
Wave/ Particle ‘Duality’ Coffee. table
Bentwood laminated birch with quilted maple veneer. Turned Poplar legs dyed with Shellac finish. Dowel construction. 30″W X 44″L X 181/2″ – 21″ H. $8,000
Planet X Floor Lamp
Figured maple, Australian blood wood, E.I. rosewood, 24k gold leaf. halogen lamp. 72″H X 30″W. $8,000 (not available)
Blanket Chest
18″Hx 24″W x 50″L. Ebonized African mahogany. Austrailian lacewood. Veneers of figured maple and Australian bloodwood. Oil and varnish finish. Aromatic cedar lined. (Not available)
