The client wanted a box that would open, play a sound and give the guests a bottle of wine for their efforts in playing. The tokens would be unlocked and given to guests for solving various puzzle, and once they had 5, they would search for this box, slip their tokens in, and get loaded…
A friend of mine asked if I could help convert a vintage, bakelite, rotary dial phone into a table lamp. Obviously I couldn’t say no to such an absurd challenge, but found her expectation for the project to be somewhat unremarkable, all she wanted was a white LED bulb and an on/off switch… this simply…
This is a bench based loosely on one that was in the front garden of the Copenhagen cottage that I grew up in. The cottage was from the 1920’s and most of the furniture was a mismatch of things from the 20’s right up until the 70’s, but I imagine the bench to be from…
This is another one of my cedar and steel creations. Like with the corner shelf, I was balancing proportions and spacings to make a piece that just feels and looks right. The constant use of a square was absolutely essential in keeping the frame true when welding. The little corner cutouts worked really nicely 🙂…
I had wanted to build a corner shelf for a little while and nothing that I had seen had been just quite right in my eyes. For me the design is all about balancing the dimensions of the timber to the height and depth of the shelves and the thickness of the steel. I made…
It was winter and I was held up in the workshop with the pot belly stove going, a lot of steel bar and a pile of reclaimed western red cedar. So I started designing and making a very simple wine rack based on the Arthur Umanoff wine racks. However unlike the Arthur Umanoff racks I…