A selection of past commissions. Each was made for a specific person and built around the thing they wanted to keep.
Every piece here was designed around the one thing it holds — a frame that echoes the photograph inside it, a stand built around a single stone, an inlay that answers the art. Built from locally sourced hardwoods and select exotics, each was made for one person, one object, one purpose.
A low, linear timepiece in red oak with walnut inlays, its face floating behind a clear panel on four standoffs.
A dramatic angular form in cherry, its hours marked by alternating aluminum and brass dots, the face floating behind a clear panel above a carved wave-cut base.
Warm, deep-toned padauk set with columns of aluminum dots angled to echo the sloping lines of the church in the print.
Three whitewashed maple panels with a cherry inlay worked into a pattern of three crosses to echo the prints it holds.
Three stacked hardwoods, walnut to oak to maple, aligned so the grain transition follows the horizon of the photograph it holds.
Bold zebrawood with deep striping, built up in a wide stepped profile around the image.
Figured leopardwood with its distinctive flecked grain, framing a cherished portrait.
A maple keepsake box wrapped in a cherry grid inlay, personalized with three inlaid symbols on the lid, opening to a lift-out tray above a lower compartment.
A polished sea-jasper specimen cradled on a grooved walnut base, paired with a copper tube that holds a rolled document telling the stone's story.
A slab of petrified wood paired with maple hand-carved to mirror it, each held upright between aluminum posts on a curved walnut base.
A slab of banded petrified wood paired with walnut hand-carved to mirror it, each held upright between aluminum posts on a pale maple base.
A wildlife photograph in red oak with a gold mat, four maple slats raking diagonally across one corner like a bobcat's claw marks.
A black-and-white lodge scene in dark-stained wood, mounted with a birch branch and a piece of raw quartz.
Walnut and cherry squares set within a fine maple grid and framed in solid walnut, the board sized and built to host its glass pieces in play.
Yours begins with a conversation.
Tell us about the photograph, the specimen, or the keepsake you'd like built around — and we'll design a piece made for it alone.