2022

I took the craft quite literally.

After twelve years of researching people, brands and products, I took a sabbatical because I simply wanted to learn how to make furniture.

I could picture what I wanted to create. But carpenters worked in materials, joints, dimensions and mechanics, a language I did not understand. To translate an idea into something buildable, I had to understand enough of their world to collaborate with them — without pretending to become the expert.

I thought I was learning to make furniture. I was also learning how to work meaningfully in a world whose technical language was not mine. A few months later, that lesson became unexpectedly useful.