Tables and lamps
2010 – 2014
Over the years I’ve built six desks – each customized for a specific apartment. This count excludes the additional seven desks I built with willing coworkers at Learning Equality to furnish our shared workspace. While I am by no means an expert, I love working with wood and metal.
Some of my projects such as the grill rickshaw and the laptop docks have their own pages, but here are a few more curiosities.
Whiskey & book table
This table is at home next to a comfortable chair and a reading lamp. It offers just enough surface area to hold the essentials. An embedded sandstone coaster protects the surface from wear and condensation.
Japanese-style lamp
This was a collaboration with artist Kazue Uehara, who specializes in organic dyes and other Japanese textile art. We liked the idea of making a relatively traditional-looking lantern out of steel instead of wood.
New Orleans trash table
During my motorcycle road trip, I spent the winter in and around the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans. After volunteering to help clean up the abandoned set of a hipster backyard theater, I felt inspired to build a small desk with some scavenged scraps.
