About
Philosophy
For me, woodworking has always been a way to live, never a way to make a living.
Most things in life demand our attention. They reach for us, insist on us, ask for more than we have to give. But a tree on a mountain path does not ask for anything. It simply stands. And yet we stop. We look up. We feel something we cannot quite name, and we find ourselves wishing we could spend our lives surrounded by that feeling. A tree earns its place not through spectacle but through presence. Presence, unlike beauty that announces itself, does not fade. It endures across rooms, across seasons, across generations.
Wood can be an eternal living presence. The woodworker carries the responsibility of immortalizing this unique beauty and presence, of understanding its character, honoring its true nature, and preserving its soul by transitioning it carefully from one life to another.
I want to make things that do not demand attention but instead offer presence, objects that will be loved not because they insist on it, but because they have earned it.
Process
The process of a project is just as important to me as the final product.
The typical process is an initial consultation to understand your space and vision, a concept design phase where ideas become plans, your approval before a single piece of wood is cut, fabrication carried out entirely by hand in my Chicago shop, and finally installation or delivery.