“Two experiences started me on my path toward designing and making fine furniture.

First, our family had to take down a deeply treasured 60+-year-old pecan tree that was destroying the foundation of our family home. My parents made the fateful decision to save as much of the tree as they could, having the wood milled and stored to dry in our garage. My father began to work with the wood, making showpieces such as a live edge dining room table. The table itself is beautiful, but the fact that the tree we loved is now the center around which our family gathers has deep meaning for me.

Second, I worked for three seasons at Philmont Scout Ranch in northeast New Mexico as a forestry work crew foreman. From that experience I gained deep appreciation of how the outside and inside of the tree tells its life story - the growth, the stresses, the cracks, the voids and all the figure that define the unique character of that tree.

I am deeply grateful and respectful of the opportunity to bring my craftsmanship to transforming treasured trees into heirloom furniture.”