I’ve been making things out of wood since I was quite young, and today I work in a shop adjacent to our home in Marin County, California. Since 2011 I’ve been able to work at it steadily, and all of the work shown on this site was produced since that time. It’s difficult for me to explain the attraction of making furniture one piece at a time, but this quote from Thomas Hucker, an accomplished professional furniture maker, does it well:

“Craft is a quiet field. It’s not a career fueled and fashioned by public recognition, but by a series of individual relationships. Each piece has it’s own story. My days are spent thinking of what furniture has been and what it could be. I try to understand my medium more clearly, to be aware of the unique and beautiful qualities that deserve to be respected. And there is the endless goal to improve one’s craft, increase the skill of execution.

In the end, what is important is the poetics of the object. This struggle is the same today as it was in the past. One hopes the object will provide joy to its owner and, more difficult, feel successful to its maker. Some pieces are better than others, but all have their place in the series of experiences. And this series of projects, each presenting its own problems to solve, creates growth - one step at a time.”*

*“Thomas Hucker,” Afterword, Speaking of Furniture (North Adams, MA: The Artist Book Foundation, 2013), 311.