design & build.
Carl focuses on benches, dinning room tables, coffee tables and sculpture and now bowl. He works with clients to understand their needs and then finds materials that will help bring the vision to life. Every piece is one-of-a-kind, designed and built specifically for your home.
DESIGNER BY TRADE.
CRAFTSMAN BY YEARS.
MISSION STATEMENT.
By training and by years of practice, I am a designer.
As an Industrial Designer for over fifty-years, I have spent my whole career designing products that expand the visual possibilities. Over those years, I have remained committed to high-design standards, balancing functionality, user requirements, regulatory needs and overall aesthetics—for both highly consumer focused products, as well as more industrial products, like medical and construction equipment. In my view, everything deserves the opportunity to be well designed to enhance the overall user experience.
That perspective informs how I approach my work today.
My process is about investing in the beauty of the wood and revealing what possibilities exist. I don’t always know what will come out of a project when I start, but I respect the materials I am working with—letting them provide direction, along with the tools I use. Together, we figure it out.
I strive to create pieces that convey the possibility of nature, but bring a practical, usability to bear. Nothing is too fragile and everything has a purpose, be it highlighting an aspect of the natural wood or incorporating it into a function of use. That’s where the keen balance of the industrial designer in me shines.
My hope is that someone interested in my pieces will get a sense of wellbeing and comfort from my work—that they too believe there is a place for crafted, highly intentional pieces within their collection.
Perhaps they too will have the same respect I do, for what is truly possible.