The Liquid Nails Vases are made from anodized aluminum and synthetic clay. The panels are mechanically attached by clay — a connection method which comes with “free” decoration.

The Jigsaw Shelf challenges the conventional relationship between utility and decoration. A unique adaptation of a traditional knock-down joint gives the shelf modularity, allowing it to be assembled in two, three, or four-shelf heights. At the same time, the joint divides the shelf into parts, creating a bold, almost psychedelic pattern. The result gets its conceptual tension from these opposing points of view – one pragmatic, and the other, fairly silly.

The Jigsaw Shelf was our contribution to The Farm Shop, an exhibition Curated by Marco Campardo, Guan Lee and Luca Lo Pinto for London Design Festival and Frieze Art Fair.

The Action Jug is created by three simple gestures: form, connect, and slice. This rudimentary manufacturing system creates a serial production run of unique pieces, each one responding slightly differently to the same series of steps.

The Action Jug was our contribution to The Farm Shop, an exhibition Curated by Marco Campardo, Guan Lee and Luca Lo Pinto for London Design Festival and Frieze Art Fair.

This body of work started with an observation. I noticed a boulder which had lichen growing on it, but only where the sun could not reach. The result was a frozen shadow, a fixed image which would always imply the direction from which the sun originally hit the rock, even after the sun went down.

The pieces that comprise Flash Set use the same principle to translate a form into an image. We carved gypsum cement using one of a few basic tools, and spray painted it from a hard angle. The resulting objects are more similar to still life photos than sculptures, using the impression of light to transform a composition of marks into a picture.

We created three standard typologies (a wall-mounted piece, a large vessel, and a small vessel) to use as a framework for our research. Each piece represents a different experiment, elaborating on the one before by slightly altering the tool, process, or sequence of steps used to make it. The result is a grid of interconnected ideas, documenting the evolution of an improvised craft.

In early 2022, we curated Slanted/Enchanted, an exhibition which celebrated improvised production techniques. Twenty international artists and designers each contributed an object which was made without outsourcing or digital fabrication. The exhibition took place at ESP in Toronto.

Our contribution was the Caterpillar Tables, a series of coffee tables made using a mechanical substitute for the industrial process of bent lamination. Standard hardware sandwiches the tables’ perforated legs and plywood rails, creating a composite structure. Varying the distance between perforations in the rails controls the curvature of each table base. The form of each base speaks to its respective top, a tempered-glass tractor windshield. Caterpillar Tables possess an idiosyncratic kind of rationality, reflecting the small workshop and basic tools with which they were made.

Exhibition participants include Adrianus Kundert, Calen Knauf, Castor, Chris Kabel, dach&zephir, Earth Landing Project, Evey Kwong, Jamie Wolfond, Joyce Lin, Julian Gregory, Keillor MacLeod, Klemens Schillinger, Marco Campardo, Maria Hupfield & Kathryn Walker, Rebecca Sun Collins, Shigeki Fujishiro, Sina Sohrab, Studio Satël, Théo Leclercq & Camille Viallet and Tom Chung.

Co-organized with Adrianus Kundert in the spring of 2020, Basketclub is a digital environment where designers and craftspeople exchange ideas about basketry.

In late 2020, Japanese furniture manufacturer, Karimoku invited Basketclub to take part in the inaugural exhibition at its Tokyo Showroom. Twelve members of Basketclub created pieces which respond to the uses behind traditional Japanese woven baskets such as carrying, drying, storing, cooking and cleaning.

Our contribution was the Tool Basket. Constructed using Kagome, a traditional Japanese triaxial weaving technique, the Basket features the unexpected intersection of a traditional basket and a toolbox-like handle. The result a unique container which is both useful and evocative.

The Stamp Lamp is comprised of four identical pressed steel components and a simple off-the-shelf cord-set. The result is a uniquely simple table lamp defined by the intersection of two contrasting forms.

We exhibited the Stamp Lamp for the first time at Salone Satellite in 2018. In 2024, the Lamp was selected for  Universo satellite, and exhibition at the Triennale di Milano.

A heavyweight indoor / outdoor steel structure highlights the inherent beauty of galvanization, a finishing method found on highway guardrails and lampposts. Its patchy iridescent pattern adds a bit of variety to an otherwise strictly geometric object. Collaboration with Sigve Knutson.

We were approached by a Montreal-based creative agency to design and produce a chandelier for a local coffee shop, nightclub and event space. To accommodate the space’s myriad functions we created a piece that is not so much a light as it is a thing which interacts with light. Comprised of 40,000 handmade glass beads, the installation acts as a vessel for light, creating a unique composition of reflective and transparent forms depending on the angle from which it is viewed. During the day, the chandelier accepts sunlight from the industrial building’s soaring windows, and at night the piece responds to a synthetic light source which hangs above it.

Since 2022, we’ve had enough space to really make things in the studio. As a result, we’ve outsourced less, and learned a lot more. Sometimes when we’re trying to approximate an industrial process, we accidentally invent our own. The resulting objects are inherently best suited to the production environment in the studio. So why not make a few of them ourselves?

The first edition is a trivet, but it doesn’t have to be used as one. In general, its just a nice object which is especially interesting the the context of domestic, crafted things. The process of designing this edition was really a game of “material broken telephone”. I was interested in crafty things like nets, and weaving, and knotting, and at the same time, industrial things like rebar, and window grates and expanded mesh. We worked with quite few production methods until we devised the pewter molding system we’re using for this edition. The result is a web of references from across material culture, woven into something that is hopefully layered and interesting.

Throughout 2023, we took pictures of textiles that we saw outside- tarps used to protect construction sites, covers for cars and motorcycles and temporary shelters. However transient or hastily erected, these pieces of nylon, canvas and vinyl are some of the most beautiful aspects of the built environment. A person affixes this mundane textile to a structure or object by some number of points and nature blows it, stretches it, creases it and slumps it until it becomes a complex and rich piece of sculpture.

So we figured out how to make these temporary works of art permanent. In a landscape where everything around us is made according to a plan, this edition immortalizes something with no plan. It’s a blueprint for an accident.

Named after the open-ended Dutch building toy, the Kapla Shelving System is a modular shelving unit defined by a solid wood frame and aluminum shelves. Five simple components can be combined in various configurations to form shelving units of two heights and infinite lengths. The Kapla Shelving system is an adaptable and strikingly clean solution for homes and offices alike.

The Owl Lamp applies a rudimentary physical principle to create a sophisticated type of motion. As a person turns the stem, a flexible hose transmits rotary force to the shade which enables it to infinitely orbit a stationary light source. The rotation of the shade continuously transforms the direction and character of the lamp.

The Owl Lamp was born from an extensive iterative process, originating from a curiosity for drinking straws and flexible driveshafts.