Zig Zag Redux in the Washington Examiner
My Zig Zag Redux Chair was featured on the front page of the House and Home section of the Washington Examiner. If you saw the August 24th 2012 edition, you saw my chairs!
Custom Bedroom Set
This past winter, I had a commission to build a bed and two nightstands out of sapele and aluminum featuring some of my stainless steel cable. The cable pattern on the bed is based upon my wall sculpture, WS2. I am really pleased with how the set came out, It has a tremendous presence and my clients were thrilled.
The bed is comprised of almost 500 parts. Compare that to my Tangent Liquor cabinet which has 270 parts and you can get a sense of how complex a piece like this is. The box aluminum components are a detail that I pioneered in my Zero table. They translated very nicely to the bed.
Making custom pieces based upon my furniture is something that I get to do a number of times a year. It starts with talking to my client about their needs and looking at their home. We also talk about which pieces they respond to as well as budget. From there I work on sketches and ideas. Designing custom pieces is a conversation. The original sketches are further developed into a build ready idea. This custom bed went through number of incarnations until the perfect design for my clients needs was settled upon. The end result is a bed that fits their lifestyle perfectly and becomes a major focal point in their bedroom.
Zig Zag Redux Chairs
My line of furniture has a wide variety of pieces, but long absent has been a chair. Things have changed now in a big way. I would like to introduce to you the Redux chair.
I set out to build a modern day take on Rietveld’s classic Zig Zag chair. Using my aluminum joinery and exposed hardware, I joined the panels in a completely Harrison way. The joints are milled out of solid chunks of aluminum and the fasteners are stainless steel. To top it off, these chairs just had to be lacquered red!
We had a great photo shoot in which I asked my friend Sarah to come and participate. You can see the whole shoot here. This is definitely one of my favorite shoots of my work.
Two new tables
I want to share the first look at two new pieces that I am adding to my line. These were done as commissions, but came out so well that I took them down to my photographer and had him do a full photo shoot!
The first is a new dinette table. It features a 4′ diameter glass top and has a concrete core. The concrete has crisscrossing holes through the lower third which lighten the pillar visually. This comfortably seats four.
The next pieces are a pair of end tables based upon my Argon Coffee table. They feature all aluminum verticals which are going to become an option on Argon.
