poliforum

The drawings preceded the workshop by two years. Furniture sketches started at twenty, and in 2012, with tools and space to work, the collection was built. Five pieces, each resolving a different structural or material question. Integra Dining Table: The concrete was my father's — a proprietary mix of polymers and fibres he had developed under the name IntegraStone for outdoor living surfaces. Dense, travertine-like, and purpose-engineered. It was ultra-high performance concrete applied to...

Year: April of 2017 (Emily Carr University, Industrial Design Graduation Project) Project: Archetype Dining Chair Material: European Beech Wood & Black Walnut Steam bending unlocks shapes that exist within the cellular structure of wood — curves the material would otherwise resist. Heat and moisture soften the fibres long enough to set a new form. As the wood cools, it holds. The effort disappears into the material, and what remains looks entirely natural. The Archetype shell is steam-bent...

Year: June of 2012 Project: Pennsylvania Dining Table (Entry into the Riva1920 Design Contest) Material: Black Walnut The Pennsylvania is built around a single structural idea: a diagonal beam, hand-fitted with mortise and tenon joints, that resolves into a central base. Four joints, four dowels, no tools required. The geometry is balanced and intentional — the diagonal does the work visually and structurally at once. The joinery is hand-cut. That distinction matters. Mortise and tenon cut by...