Sea Ranch: seaside beds
I worked with the owners of the Charles Moore Condo #9 to design and build custom bed updates for the original residence of famed architect Charles Moore, whose “Sea Ranch Condominiums” earned him the American Institute of Architect’s 25 Year Gold Medal Award in 1991. Competing sea views and impossibly tight corners created both installation and documentation difficulties, but these are my best photos of the completed work.
- queen bed w/ drawers, solid maple & ply, ash slides, opaque conversion varnish spray finish
-2x floating Fir bedside “tables” w/ ash slides osmo finish
Temescal: slatted walls
These slatted walls were designed by architect Laura Boutelle as part of a renovation of a historical Craftsman bungalow in the Temescal neigborhood of Oakland. The renovation was featured in Dwell Magazine + in 2024. Made from solid white ash with dadoed joinery, through steel rods and delrin spacers. Finished with hand rubbed osmo.
Pacific Pasisades: dining set
I first designed and built this dining set for a newly renovated 1949 ranch house nestled alongside the Santa Monica Mountains, and have remade verisions of it many times since. Made from bookmatched California claro walnut slabs with black walnut finger jointed bases, and finished with hand rubbed oil and varnish.
-One Kings Lane home tour blogpost, Tour Shiva Rose’s Cali-Cool Ranch House
Inverness: daybed to queen
Still awaiting its final placement in a wooded modern cabin renovation, this daybed will be equipped with two stacked single foam mattresses that then lay side by side when expanded, forming a queen sized guest bed. Adapted from Pierre Chapo‘s designs and featuring all wood slatted joinery and finger joints. Solid red elm with hand rubbed osmo finish. Captivating end grain for days.
Oakland Hills: expanding dining table
An expandable dining table that is cozy for a family of four and expands to seat up to twelve for larger gatherings. Based on Tage Frid’s Dutch pull-out mechanical design, this table features all wood sliding top mechanisms, shop cut 1/8" thick eastern black walnut veneers and handshaped walnut legs. Sprayed topcoat finish.
Designed for my chapter in the New York Times bestseller how-to woodworking book Good Clean Fun, this knock-down bed relies on all wood hand-cut joinery and breaks down flat for easy transportation and reassembly. Quartersawn white oak with a California claro slab headboard, finished with hand rubbed osmo oil.
Santa Monica: claro altar
Califonia claro walnut slab and base with brushed brass feet. Oil and varnish finish.
Traveling: ping pong table
Built for the Balvenie Collection Rare Craft Road Show, this custom ping pong table is designed to break down and pack flat as it travels to various gallaries & showrooms across the country. Solid cherry folding bases with brass hardware, hand veneered madrone top with holly inlays, hand-caned net, tung oil finish. Designed and built with Michele Diener.
Downtown Oakland: commercial displays
Custom curved display and storage cabinets built for a beauty and wellness store-front in Oakland. Maple veneer and marbled color core finishes.
Mobile cart designed with and built for the staff of C3–a street-based outreach program that provides housing and health services to the unhoused community of Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Provides hydration, shade, mobile device charging, seating, medical and outreach supply bins, writing surface, and secure document storage. Redwood, Jatoba, marine ply frame, King Color Board, & Aluminum. Made in collaboration with Jesse Marsh.