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.

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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

A unique piece of recycled furniture. All the wood used is “cut-off” salvaged from dumpsters of local lumber mills. The old sewing machine base spins its wheel through the table top.

African mahogany, walnut, poplar, purple heart, mahogany, pine, cherry 24W x 36L x 18H

Please contact for pricing and creating your own custom recycled furniture.

This massive desk is made entirely from reclaimed materials.
The gears were discarded from an old swing bridge in Milwaukee. Wood is salvaged from a 126 year old barn in South Eastern Wisconsin. The materials patina and history are carefully maintained.  Original nail holes, saw-tooth etchings and the imprints of brackets that held the barn frame together are enhanced by my process.

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Pine, Walnut, Purple Heart, Steel, 62W x 32H x 72L

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Carved a quarter inch thick and able to produce different pitches, this 6 ft tall wooden cedar horn fills a room with sound. When displayed on its base, Sound Sculpture II can add a unique and beautiful timbre of sound to any recording. Plug it into anything from your home stereo system to your ipod. You will be amazed by its remarkable hand-made construction and quality of amplification.

This piece has been SOLD, but please contact for custom orders.