This design was initially used as a carving demonstration during the Herter Brothers’ Furniture Exhibition at The High Museum of Atlanta several years prior to it’s completion as a table. The idea developed as I lazily watched a worm crawling and burrowing through small leaves and grass.

One of my favorite  plants is the Monstera with it’s giant leaves with holes. My fascination for snakes added to a more tropical interpretation of my languid observations. The legs are the image of that most malodorous, but amazing Amorphophallus titanum or the corpse flower which bloomed at The Atlanta Botanical Gardens in 1998.

Material: cherry, curly maple, glass
Dimensions (h x w x d): 17 x 42 x 20
Year Made: 1999

Material: walnut
Dimensions (h x w x d): 29.5 x 78 x 40
Year Made: 1998

A narrow hall-way, door swings open and it’s not only the mail that’s blown by that gust of wind….. Really enjoyed carving this little table and mirror.

Material: curly maple, cherry
Dimensions (h x w x d): 68 x 36 x 6
Year Made: 2000

This was, on paper, one of the three submitted designs for a client ( chosen was the Wind-Blown Hall table and Mirror). The narrow depth of  8″ for the relative height is not the ideal for stability, but the space was tight.  I chose to make all three  ‘hall-table-with-mirror’ ideas as they presented different challenges and views within the dimensions.

The ‘cloth’ between the legs gave greater rigidity to this table.

As in other pieces with  carved hanging cloth folds, this table has, for me,  a “quiet” appearance

Material: walnut, paulownia
Dimensions (h x w x d): 36 x 36 x 8
Year Made: 2002

The more ‘curly’ symbol for pi (approx. 3.14159) was the inspiration for these tables.

Material: oak
Dimensions (h x w x d): 24 x 13 x 21
Year Made: 2002

This was made as a speculative piece from one of three ideas submitted to a client. The challenge of stability in this narrow depth was dealt with in different ways in the three ideas. ( also see Linen… and Wind-Blown…)

Characters in calligraphy are often very sculptural; enlarged or rearranged in a kinetic way opens a host of design possibilities. Here, the influences are largely from the devanagari/sanskrit script

Material: sepele mahogany, curly mahogany veneer
Dimensions (h x w x d): 36 x 32 x 8
Year Made: 2002