Title: "Kaya Entryway"
Dimensions: 144" x 108"
Design: Custom entryway design integrates antique styling. Features bookmatched panel and center stile accents. Hand-carved rosettes are re-creations of originals by Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) from the entryway to the Baptistry in Parma, Italy.
Materials: Quarter sawn African mahogany (KAYA); coal-forged ("weldless") ironwork.
Location: Private residence (Del Mar, CA)

Title: "Hickory Mantel"
Dimensions: 75" x 60"x 14"
Design: Hand-carved acanthus leaf motif fireplace mantel.
Materials: Solid hickory with a distressed, antique satin lacquer finish.
Location: Private residence (Rancho Sante Fe, CA)

Title: "Surround Fireplace Mantel"
Dimensions: 78" x 48" 72"
Design: Peer-through fireplace features one surround mantel facing the living room and the other facing the dining room.
Materials: Afromosia veneer with a satin lacquer finish.
Location: Private residence (Del Mar, CA)

Title: "Music Stand"
Dimensions: 40.25" x 20.75 " x 45.5 " (102cm x 53cm x 116cm) Adjustable height.
Design: The client that commissioned this piece is a friend of the Imperial Family of Japan and is very much in love with the Japanese arts. He is also an authority on "Netsuke" and is the author of several books on this subject. The client requested the re-creation of a music stand by a very well known American woodworker of Japanese decent: to present as a gift to close friends, who are also avid collectors of Japanese decorative art.
Materials: The top is a solid piece of Amboina burl, with rosewood accents. The base is made with figured claro walnut and brass inlays.
Location: Private residence.

Title: "Tusk Table I"
Dimensions: 64" x 16" x 35"
Design: Inspiration for this table comes from the long graceful tapered curves, as seen on the tusks of pachyderms.
Materials: The legs of the table are crotch mahogany veneer, the top is a solid piece of extremely highly figured maple, and the feet are made of solid Gaboon ebony.
Location: Private collection.

Title: "Tusk Table II"
Dimensions: 69" x 34" x 16.5"
Design: The design inspiration for the legs on the Tusk tables comes from Aaron having seen mammoth tusks laid out on a tarp. That image sparked the inspiration for what you see here.
Materials: The curved legs of this table are Macassar ebony sawn veneer 2mm thick, glued over an alder wood substrate. The aprons are solid figured Macassar ebony that possesses a beautiful shimmer. The top of the table is assembled in a marquetry technique called Jeux de Fond, or playful ground. The three types of wood that comprise the cubes are; mahogany, African satine: the third wood is unidentifiable due to the age and obscurity. Also incorporated into the top is an inlay of aluminum that is framed with Macassar ebony. The table's feet and mountings for the top are made of polished aluminum. The woodwork is finished with lacquer, and then wet sanded and polished to a high gloss.
Location: Rancho Santa Fe, California