San Francisco furniture designer and maker

My goal with every finished product that leaves the studio is to create a dependable companion that will age gracefully through generations of daily use.

My first exposure to the magic of woodwork was in my grandfather’s basement shop as soon as I was old enough to ‘help’ him on small projects. He was an energetic and kind man who built large buildings by day but loved making mid-century furniture at night. I worked in an office after college (for the New York City Council and then at Google) before realizing I wanted to follow in his dusty footsteps. I’ve been designing and making full time since 2015.

My passion is functional beauty. I love designing with a specific need or space in mind and then tracking down and refining the most beautiful wood I can for the job. My goal with every finished product that leaves the studio is to create a dependable companion that will age gracefully through generations of daily use. I want the wood to sing on its own, but I add small details that will make it a tactile joy to run your hands over.

In addition to a line of made-to-order pieces I’m slowly releasing on the site, I mostly make tables, credenzas, built-in casework and cabinets. However I have experience with all sorts of fabrication projects from very small to large (maybe the strangest example so far was an adjustable platform that held two billboard sized studio mirrors in an Oregon potato field for an energy drink photo shoot during the Solar Eclipse).

Because the process is just as important to me as the final product, I’m responsive, communicative and treat my clients as partners from the first conversation until after delivery. I work out of Hunt Projects in the Bayview district and live on the western edge of San Francisco in the Sunset with my wife Sami, a musician who inspires me daily.