The Phillips No.2 Writing Desk is a timeless workstation.

Crafted by hand from urban salvaged Wisconsin black Walnut.

Inlaid leather writing desk blotter.

The sliding center leaf reveals a hidden felt lined center compartment to store all those 007 gadgets and top-secret information.

30″H x 28″W x 60″L

Reclaimed from our nation’s rust belt, this Sideboard is hand made from factory floor maple boards and urban-salvaged walnut.    60″L  x  20″  x  42″H

Assorted shapes and sizes of oak cutting boards/serving platter & ash butcher blocks.

Please contact for purchase, and/or visit:

The Ancient Tree Underground

311 N. Plankinton Ave.

Milwaukee, WI 53203

Reclaimed cast-iron circa 1900.

This piece was found in pieces covered in layers of paint and rust. After restoration a bronze patina was added.  The tabletop is 125 yr. old black walnut that was reclaimed from the rubble of a collapsed barn in 2009.  The crack through the table, and all other imperfections are original to its fall.

Green poplar patchwork inlay. Oil-rubbed finish. 28″ x 28″ x 29″

This piece is FOR SALE. Please contact for pricing and or visit:

The Ancient Tree Underground

311 N. Plankinton Ave.

Milwaukee, WI 53203

Peruvian walnut, Redwood 24″H x 17″W x 15″L

Carved a quarter inch thick this wooden horn speaker fills a room with sound. When displayed on its base, the Bellaphone can add a unique and beautiful timbre of sound to any recording. Plug it into anything from your home stereo system to your iPhone. Hand-made construction & Oil-rubbed finish.

Peruvian walnut, Redwood 24″H x 17″W x 15″L

Carved a quarter inch thick this wooden horn speaker fills a room with sound. When displayed on its base, the Bellaphone can add a unique and beautiful timbre of sound to any recording. Plug it into anything from your home stereo system to your iPhone. Hand-made construction & Oil-rubbed finish.

This desk was inspired by an old and weathered chicken coop that I saw driving in South Central Wisconsin.   The solid oak construction employs bridal and sliding dovetail joinery.  The holes in the drawer were created in nature by oak tree borers, and the decaying edges of the horizontal slats are all natural edges from the slabs of wood cut for this project.

The desk is 72″ x 32″ x 28″ and fits two rolling file boxes 18″ x 14″ x 17″.

The oak was given a patina by way of fuming and ebonizing.  These traditional processes for darkening and richening the color of oak are possible by the tannins found in the wood.  Fuming was apparently discovered by observing how the oak beams in stables would darkened on exposure to the fumes from horse urine.

Commissioned for the studios of Dolan Geiman.

Made from Reclaimed Ash, these hand-carved corbel shelves were commissioned for a large curved wall of an editing suite.  The doubled corbel design was created with tongue & groove joinery, and inspired by other damask patterns previously existing in the space.   The Ash was finished with a white-wash technique, by using white leather dye from a factory just down the street from my studio.

Commissioned for Blend Studios

Redwood, Peruvian Walnut. 14′W x 10′H x 2′L (2009)

Reclaimed from a twenty-foot muscatel wine fermentation barrel, these redwood shelves display a 57 year old patina.

When the boards were being disassembled from the Wisconsin Liquor Warehouse in 1967, crowbars were used to pull the dowel joinery apart.

These marks, along with nail holes and original wine soaked dowels add to the preservation and history behind each piece.

(2009) Redwood, salvage steel pipe fittings.

Commissioned for Nick Waraksa