Appreciating the beauty in a naturally imperfect world.

My process explores concepts of imperfection, beauty, and utility.

At the Refind Studio, I work with aged, natural, and man-made materials to fabricate one-of-a-kind furniture & functional art. Every thing has a story and my process combines these story lines to create unique, analog objects for your home.

The reFind Studio is located on a small farm in Forest Knolls, California and is filled with various odds and ends, both man-made and natural that have found refuge under the eaves. As with any such place, the objects have discussions with each other and I often arrive to find that a consensus has been reached as to what things will combine in new ways to create objects both functional and odd.

Most of the work I do is speculative and stems from using materials I’ve found that gel somehow in my shop to become something interesting. Everything I create ends up having visible traces of past lives and so new construction or flawless highly finished furniture is for others to obsess over.

There are always several projects on hold in my shop at any moment as well as plenty of raw materials that are awaiting the creative impulse. Hard to pin down exactly what I do beyond that since everything I make is unique. Truthfully, I’ve been so busy over the last year that I’ve made nothing new (although just made furniture on-site for a friend’s new coffee shop in Paonia, CO in August.

I use man-made and natural materials, combining wood metal and stone, and my shop is filled with old doors, windows, mirrors, parts of lights, rusted objects, driftwood, pipes, and remnants of ancient furniture, boxes, wire, old tools, and lots of fasteners and hardware curiosities. Out of those things have come indoor and outdoor furniture, unusual lights, shelving, and many sculptural objects, mounted collections and even trivial but fascinating driftwood pens.