Traditional menusiers of West Africa will travel great distances on foot to find naturally bent crooks from trees or rootstock grubbed from the marigot. From these, they fashion two things primarily, similar in form but close to opposite in function. Hoes are the main products, usually with a hand-forged iron blade, but occasionally with a […]
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Incline House
I was recently invited by Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb to submit a drawing for the publication of their upcoming book and accompanying exhibition, Visionary Architecture (title pending): “Visionary Architecture will concentrate on un-built (impossible or speculative) structures that exist on paper. This project begins with an invitation to a wide range of participants, including […]
Rural Flaneur
I’m becoming a rural flaneur. Between projects I roam around meadows and forests, between the river and the beach, noticing things and making connections, looking for trends. The challenge will be to align my projects with these seasonal wanderings, to align my inner state with my surroundings, which I see as an ideal state […]
Brooks Brothers Rags
I scavenge thrift stores for Brooks Brothers shirts, which are the most comfortable for woodworking and just about everything else I do. I tend to wear them hard, after which I recycle them into the most superior rags for finishing. will ivermectin kill lungworm _uacct = “UA-4252294-1”; urchinTracker();
Surf Shop Chair
I love this chair. It lives outside the Northern Light Surf Shop in Bodega, California, a town familiar to fans of Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’. I pass through Bodega almost daily on my way to Doran Beach for a run, and sometimes stop for a chat at the surf shop and a dose of afternoon sun. […]
Ideal States of Comfort
I was reading Ulla Maaria’s recent column “Renting is the New Buying” where she referred to a survey she had made among students about what ‘luxury’ meant to them. The results helped to reinforce her larger point regarding assumptions we make about what constitutes well-being, “Instead of associating luxury with money or any imaginable form […]