My design work varies from the poetic to the pragmatic. With self-initiated projects, I tend to design for the domestic sphere, at the scale of the individual, and often without a lot of technology. My academic projects involve greater ethnographic research and participatory methods and tend toward systems-, service-, and strategic-design. The images below represents the "making" aspect of my design practice, often in collaboration with Stephanie M. Tharp and our studio, materious.
Inspired by the invective writings of Adolf Loos and his concerns for the economic and moral detriments of ornamentation, Adieu is a set of eight porcelain furniture legs from bygone eras. Cast from actual wooden chair components, they are to be placed in gas or unused fireplaces; for the ardent modernist, these “logs” offer a torrid farewell to our stylistic pasts.
DOUBLE STOP
Door stop for small and large gaps
Licensed to Design Ideas
Walnut wood, maple wood plug, elastic band
2010
"To me, and to all the cultivated people, ornament does not increase the pleasures of life. If I want to eat a piece of gingerbread I will choose one that is completely plain…modern people understand this." — Adolf Loos
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