1996-1997 From Left to Right:

Eucalyptus Chair Made of eucalyptus, these chairs were designed to suggest the potential commercial viability of eucalyptus trees cut for fire trails throughout California. The wood's extreme hardness allows for excellent sliding dovetail joints, which are used throughout the construction of these chairs, with no other mechanical fasteners.

Archimedes This stacking stool/table reduces a comfortable and durable structure to a single constructional component and structural element. It is a continuous cantilever composed of 11 identical laser-cut plywood laminations. A meditation on resource ecology and structural efficiency, this project transposes a vernacular “craft” ideology onto a computer-controlled “high tech” process.

Tiivuline This piece results from experiments in the structural potential of two mutually determining, logarithmic contours. It is a meditation on resource and structural efficiency and durability, being constructed of water-cut 6061-T6 aircraft aluminum, with minimal cuts and minimal waste. The chair's fabrication uses high technology as an extension of the hand.