Every design decision answers to three, held at once, none subordinate to the others.
The wood is a collaborator, not a quarry. Grain, figure, and character are not obstacles to design; they are co-designers.
A specific person with a specific sensibility. Not preference, not trend; the eye developed through looking, making, and honest reckoning.
Precision is owed wherever function lives, and nowhere else. Utility and beauty are not mutually exclusive; they are interdependent.
A running catalog, numbered from the beginning. The early pieces count as much as the ones still ahead.
1,000 heirloom pieces over 30 years, documented as they're made, not curated after the fact.
On the difference between a painter's blank canvas and a board that already has grain, movement, and decisions embedded in it before the maker ever arrives at the bench.
The book gets written late. The record starts now.
