I work on interiors, buildings, objects and artwork, mostly from a studio in Seattle.
Before this I worked on large public and cultural projects in Europe. Rail stations, a hotel, and a pavilion for the United Nations. That’s where I learned to coordinate consultants and get complicated things built.
Then I managed custom home projects on Nantucket, where the details get looked at closely and everything new has to hold its own next to buildings that have been there two hundred years.
The work now is my own thinking and design: a stair, a kitchen, an addition to a house that’s been standing a century. I do all of it myself, from the field measurements through permitting and construction, or any piece of it. Early feasibility, pre-design, a set of millwork drawings, a second opinion on a decision.
I work from the inside out or the outside in depending on what the project needs, and I walk you through it to a design that fits the budget you actually have. No project is too small.
Most people want help with the rooms they already have, and assume an architect is the expensive way to get it. It isn’t. And if the project turns out to need an architect, you already have one.
I put the same thinking into art and objects at a different scale: rhythm, texture, and what happens to a form when it’s repeated. Small shifts in material, repeated until they add up to something.
I also built Madder Color, an app that matches a color palette to a house’s own architecture.[Madder →]
