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Furniture · Porto
A chair is a promise about ten years from now.
I design in solid wood and sheet steel, and make the first of everything myself. A drawing the workshop downstairs cannot build is not finished.
Method
Design for the second owner.
Most furniture is designed for the moment of purchase: how it photographs, how it feels in a showroom. Almost none is designed for the day somebody inherits it and has to decide whether to keep it.
That single question settles most decisions. It rules out glue where a bolt would do, and finishes that cannot be repaired by somebody who is not me.
01
Build the first one
By hand, badly, in a week. The drawing always lies about at least one joint.
02
Live with it
Three months in the flat, noticing what I stop using and why.
03
Design the repair
If a part cannot be replaced with hand tools, the piece is not finished.
Pieces
Three objects
Three pieces from the last four years. The first two have pages of their own.
Seating · 2026
Bolted stool, no glue
Nine parts, four bolts, one hex key. Flat-packs, and every joint can be tightened by whoever owns it in 2040.
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Storage · 2025
Shelf that admits its span
A visible steel spine instead of a hidden one, because a shelf that sags is worse than a shelf that shows how it does not.
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Seating · 2024
Bench for a hallway
Made for a corridor 620mm wide, which decided almost everything about it.
Workshop
Downstairs
