The designer of today in all fields has new materials and technologies to confront. The new age is reducing and simplifying, yet it all seems so much more complex. We struggle with where we fit, where is the soul and sense of person in these new advances.

These mediums and processes take on a greater sense of humanity as we find ways to connect them with our ideas. The faith of youth to embrace ever-rapid advances assures us that the past and future are elements of continuum that share common ground. Eventually we discover that in the simplicity is a place where we have always been. Within the new are universal connections to the past and the future.

A well executed contemporary design crosses the boundary of time -- like good art, it is eternal.

Modular end and coffee tables: bent and laminated ply
with a highly polished acrylic finish.

The clients, a young couple: wanted white, absolute simplicity with a statement of technology.

Red Oak and Glass Stereo Cabinet

Simplicity of lines challenges the designer to discover accents and expression in the most subtle of forms. The smallest shift in line or positioning becomes a major aesthetic influence. Brass rectagles, clear cylinders and softened edge glass plains totally reduce and combine form and function

I am drawn to design ideas that provide a challenge and new learning. In addition great satisfaction comes from the opportunity of expressing and sharing these with others. Personal and professional development is about connection -- connection with ideas, materials, processes, other people and self.

Mahogany Desk

The client wanted mahogany, dove tail joinery and simplicity of line to be part of the background of her work as a writer. She wanted no sides to the desk and wanted to be able to see the construction elements of the work. Drawer rails served a dual function of holding the carcass together and mortise and tendons were exposed by going the full width of the legs.

Pine Coffee Table

The challenge of bringing together a pine dining room suite and contemporary living room furniture in an open concept first floor was met with a large coffee table that borrows from the materials and finish of the dining room table and picks up the linear line elements found in a floor lamp and the living room upholstery.

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