Improv

Made with my frequent collaborator Norman Teague for blkHaUS Studios, this chair was displayed in the Montauk Sofa showroom during the 2018 iteration of NeoCon for an Object Society pop up exhibition as well as in the exhibition Iconic Black Panther, curated by Tracy Hall and shown in 2019 at Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation galleries.

Details: 2018, Found instrument and furniture parts, 48" h x 28" w x 22" d

Photography : Ebere Agwuncha

Boa Bedside Table

The bedside table, encourages an attitude of play through touch. The table’s straight forward design and clean lines are part of a small collection that includes a version as a case that hangs on the wall, and a sideboard. The feather boa teases with a sensuality appropriate for the bedroom.

Details: 2015, sapele, steel, natural feather boa, 23” h x 20” w x 15” d

Chair, Chair

Can you find all the letters that spell the word chair? This work brings together two-dimensional and three dimensional form and bridges my former discipline of graphic design and my current work with furniture forms and new technologies. The work was created using industrial water jet cutting technologies and hand tooling. There are six components that come apart so they can be packed for flat shipping. The chair uses the typeface Neutra, designed by architect Richard Neutra for signage in his commisions, I use it here as the basis for its form.

Details: 2004, Aluminum

Untitled (bench)

This bench first appears to be a simple stack of wood. It is meant to seat two to three people and opens to double as a storage chest.

Details: 2004, Basswood

Tangelo Chair & Tangelo End Table

These simple forms are made up of three aluminum pieces that are bent and welded together with powder coating in the interior spaces.

Details: 2004, Aluminum, various

Brulée Tables

Modeled after an earlier work Pheasant Brulée, these coffee and side tables have a removal feather element that can be put in one's lap for petting.

Details: 2005, Mahogany, steel and pheasant feathers, dimensions various

Pheasant Brulée

This small, expressive object does have a functional element in a drawer. It has over 100 feathers which are natural in color and not dyed. It is a little more than three feet high.

Details: 2003, Mahogany, burnt mahogany and pheasant feathers

R/O Table

This small object is also functional. It has a top that lifts off to serve as a reliquary, and is also a little more than three feet high.

Details: 2003, Walnut, curly maple, gold leaf, wire & beads