An urban Toronto home with careful slots and skylights to bring the sun into the narrow lot. A lofty tatami mat tower is a retreat for quiet contemplation, views through the treetops, yoga. Detailed drawings, structural coordination, contract administration. With AGATHOM Co., photos 1–4 by Scott Norsworthy.
For sankaku Volume 02: Ramen, I drew up this ramen noodle block to be gold foil-stamped onto the cover of the paperback edition — the partner to the hardcover collector's edition with a real block of ramen embedded in the cover.
An improvised little stool made entirely from offcuts I picked out of the bin — sugar maple bark edge trimmings and a narrow strip of walnut.
Mockup for sankaku Volume 01, a book of stories about people rethinking craft traditions, creative collaborations, and community-building in and around Tokyo.
Sugar maple frame, buckeye burl top. Hand-cut joinery including wedged thru-tenons and angled dovetail. Inspired by George Nakashima's Conoid Cross Leg.
Square tube & solid round bar frame with beeswax finish. Salvaged pine cookie top with tung oil finish.
A rural house perched off the edge of a rocky cliff. With AGATHOM Co., visualization by Michael Yoshimura.
Roughed out with an axe, carved by hand, knife finished, and oiled.
Built of dry-stacked, hand-shaped limestone over 2 weeks with a crew of 10; during a workshop led by John Shaw-Rimmington.
Stacking river rocks on the Athabasca River.
A house in Wasaga Beach, for which I made this model and brought the drawing set up to building permit.
With AGATHOM Co., photo 1 by Pascal Arseneau, p.2–3 by Steven Evans.
Cary Leeds Tennis Center 1/16" = 1' scale model and Artist Retreat 1/8" = 1' scale model. I made these while working at GLUCK+ (f.k.a. Peter Gluck & Partners).
Weathered marble slab awaiting processing — transformation pending.
Cold-rolled steel bar, shaped by hand and hot-blued. With a flat so it won't roll away.
Tusk tenon knockdown design. Friction-fit oak planing stop.
Pine cookie with tapered-tenon maple legs.
Scale model of a table with a spalted maple top.
Wheel hub bearing cones: pitted, and re-ground. The setup: a wood-oil bearing block, cordless drill drive, and rotary tool.