Lighting

Giza #123

This is another riff on the circular light theme, this time with a pyramid at it's base instead of cube. The weird intersecting angles were a challenge to make

13"  by 12" by 5" —  Sapele, lati, paldoa, and wenge. 2025

Circle #123

This was an experiment in finding ways to hide the LED strips within the structure. Not super bright, but surprisingly gives off a fair bit of light.

13"  by 12" by 5" —  Walnut, padauk, maple, wenge, and grey oak. 2025

Brasilia #5

A table lamp that uses LEDs embedded into the five upward maple slats with a modern marquetry on he front reminiscent of the architecture in Brazil's capitol, Brasilia.

8"  by 8" by 13" — Monkeypod, white ash burl walnut burl, padauk, maple, wenge, and grey oak. 2025

Right Lamp #1

This lamp pays homage to the mid-century American architect, Frank Lloyd. A flood lamp illuminates the bottom and the oak legs were "fumed" black.

8"  by 8" by 15" — Lati, walnut burl, padauk with white oak grid and legs,. 2025

BauhausAtt

A lamp to round out the Bauhaus series  inspired by the old ATT logo.

11"  by 11" by 10" — Maple burl, sapele, cherry, and a hint of padauk. 2025

El Bauhaus

A Bauhaus-style lamp with constructivist-inspired marquetry on the top and sides.

8"  by 11" by 10" — Paulownia, grey oak, padauk, walnut burl, bubinga, and maple. 2025

Bauhaus Fins

An experiment in trying to add color, via construction paper veneered onto wood panels. Turns out the paper is a little sensitive to being glued, so the texture is a little mottled, but at least it's colorful!

11"  by 11" by 11" — Wenge, saldoa, and padauk. 2025

Tilted cubes

This lamp was inspired by a design school class project in search of visual balance (thanks Connie!) and has a  Bauhaus / Suprematist vibe to it. The back is hollow and has two small bulbs illuminating the wall.

12"  by 12” by 5" —  Wenge, padauk, zebrawood and mahogany. 2024

W.E.B. Lamp #11

The scholar and Black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented a series of beautiful and insightful graphs for an exhibit at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair. This was decades before this type of artwork was popularized by Malevich and Kandinsky. He graphed the Black population of Georgia during the 1890s --  from large cities, to towns, and to rural areas as it moves towards the spiral. LED lights illuminate under the top slab.

6"  by 14” by 4" —  Padauk, cherry, zebrawood, and mahogany on paulownia. 2024

Minard's Map

A lamp,  illuminated in the rear by LEDs, set in an open book. The inside pages are a 1869 map  by Frenchman Charles Minard, which shows Napoleon's  troops on their way and back from France to Russia in 1812.  It unites six different sets of data:  geography, time, troops,  their path, and temperature. The  temperature is key to understanding why he lost so many men.  There is also his map of Hannibal’s (not Lector) crossing of the Alps.

12"  by 9” by 8" — Spanish cedar, walnut, sen, wenge. 2024

Sputnik 

In 1957, the Russians launched the first space satellite in orbit and touched off the space race. It also revolutionized our educational system be competitive with the USSR. This lamp pays homage to Sputnik, and has LED strip lighting embedded in its 12 arms.

24” by 12” by 8: — Zebrawood, sapele, isombe, paldoa, walnut, and padauk. 2024

Lily Sconce Lamp

A wall sconce where the lighting is made by LED strips under the three layers of leaves, each an inch higher than the other.

7"  by 10 by 2" —  Monkeypod, walnut, sapele, mahogany, maple,and zebrawood, on maple. 2024

Three Long Books Lamp

A desktop lamp that highlights three long, but influential (at least to me) books. Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, and Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel Escher, Bach. The lighting is indirect, plugs into the wall, and comes out the open back.

10"  by 8” by 7" —  Monkeypod, walnut, sapele, mahogany, maple, paulownia, padauk, and birch. 2024

Cut-out Leaf Chandelier 

Matisse-inspired leaves on a birch framework painted black. There is a 5” globe bulb in the center. It is very fragile!

24” by 12” — Sapele, isombe, and padauk, on a birch frame with maple arms. 2024

Leaf Fan Lamp

Matisse-style leaves inspired from his 1940s cut-out era. Each pair radiates out from from the center. LED lights line the back leaves provide nice indirect lighting.

9"  by 11” by 5" deep —  Lacewood, sen, walnut and sapele on a wenge base. 2024

Open Book Lamp

A book with internal LED lighting between pages

6" x 6" x 9" -- Sapele, walnut, mahogany, birds-eye oak, padauk, cherry, and curly maple on oak. 2024