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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 Cubes
Another lamp inspired by the design and art done at Germany's Bauhaus in the 1920s, which hosted modern artists such as Kandinsky, Albers, Gropius, and Klee.
7" by 7" by 9" — Wenge, paldoa, padauk, maple and isolde. 2025
Gorin Box
A tissue-paper cover with a 1920's design inspired by Jean Gorin, a disciple of Mondrian.
5" by 5" by 6" —Walnut burl, padauk, isombe, padona, and wenge on butternut. 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.
12" by 9” by 8" — Padauk, cherry, zebrawood, and mahogany on paulownia. 2024
Rising Box Sconces
This pair of wall sconces are lit from behind in three tiers and from the back using adjustable LED lights that plug into the wall. Each tier rises 1/2" higher from the last and is lit from behind. The left sconce is a mirror image of the right. The design was inspired by early 1900's Russian Supremacist painter Kazimir Malevich.
12" by 9” by 3" — Wenge, paulownia, walnut burl, and padauk on a maple base. 2024
Hidden Drawer
A side table with a "hidden" drawer that pulls out from the front. Design is inspired by early 19th-century Russian Supremist artist, Kazimir Malevich.
13” by 13” by 23" — Maple burl, walnut, burl padauk, and wenge, on a maple base with white oak trim. 2024
Grapes of Wright
Based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1927 "May Basket" illustration; a colorful abstraction of a basket of overflowing grapes and springtime fruits. Wright was an acclaimed mid-20th century architect of such iconic buildings as Falling Water and the Guggenheim Museum.
12” by 12” — Bamboo, padauk, bird’s eye maple, mahogany, wenge, bloodwood, and anegre. 2023
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