Objects

Outdoor Rocking Armchair

Inspired by work from Brazilian 1950s architect Lina Bo Bardi

Desktop Organizer

Officially the smallest thing I’ve designed and built, this tiny but elegant addition to any surface is dying to help you organize your envelopes, bills, Christmas cards, pens and flowers. Solid walnut finished in Danish oil.

Tall Dining Table for the Architect

Designed at 36 inches height to enable a comfortable bar-style seating arrangement. Modern kitchens and their oversized island/dining table hybrids have highly popularized bar seating arrangements. This height of table combines this trend and a more formal dining experience. This table, due to its height, also functions as a work desk. Made of poplar and finished with dark walnut Danish Oil with no exposed hardware.

Biophilic Wall Sculpture

An experimental study project for a Miami Beach spa refurbishment. The spa, located in an historic Art Deco hotel along Ocean Drive, is located in the lower level of the building with zero access to natural lighting. The owner wanted to fill the space with natural, aesthetic elements that can survive without natural or fluorescent lighting. This study addressed these constraints with a green wall sculpture utilizing natural preserved mosses. The two grids of square cubes have varying heights to cast a variety of shadows with different light angles while ambient backlit panels emphasize a subtle elegance. Although the spa project is much larger in scale, the study elements satisfied the project constraints. Built uniformity meets nature run amok in this experimental design.

Mounted Tillandsia

Hints of both barnhouse chic and exotic South Florida come to light with this delicate assortment of air plants attached to a yellow pine backboard. Shiny copper supports sprout each air plant in the same manner one would sprout from the branch of a bald cypress tree, found deep within the Everglades.

Sapele Bar Table

The client for this project wanted a bar table to accommodate evenings spent dockside at his home following his day out on the boat. Rot and weather were large considerations since he owns a seaside dock, and so American White Oak and Sapele (“the African mahogany”) were chosen as exceptionally rot resistant and sturdy materials. The white shiplap-style siding contrasts beautifully with the rich mahogany color of the bar top.