Atelier of Functional + Sculptural Objects
Meridian
Sconce
Species -- Maple
Finish -- Osmo PolyX
Description -- Meridian is a wall sconce made of stretched canvas in a handmade hard maple frame. The lighting strip behind the shade tracks the real-time position of the sun, shifts through blue hour and golden hour colors, and goes dark at night. No screen. No buttons. Just light moving slowly across the frame as the day passes.
The frame is hard maple, joined and finished by hand. The electronics are custom-wired. The solar math runs on a microcontroller tucked out of sight, running custom code.
Axis Coffee Table
Private Client
Material -- Eastern Ash
Finish -- Rubio Monocat Oil Plus 2C in Cocoa
Description -- This past fall, I visited friends at their new home in Brooklyn, NY. They had just returned from a trip to Portugal, and the topic of furnishings came up — how they fell in love with an end table by Van Duysen for Zara Home, and how they wished they could have something similar in their living room for a coffee table.
The Axis coffee table is the result of that conversation, taking inspiration from the piece they showed me and adapting it to the Standard Day Studio style and approach.
Medieval Mail Slot Trim
Personal Artifact
Material -- Cherry
Finish -- Wood Wax
Purpose -- Inspired by medieval parapets, this new mail slot is my home serves serves both art and functional design, completed with 3D printed magnetic latch system to remove and replace slot door. This allows the cherry to reveal its continuous grain through the piece without being interrupted by hardware.
Ara Kitchen Cart
Personal Artifact
Material -- Hard Maple
Finish -- Offered only in Rubio Monocoat Pure.
Purpose -- Replaces functionality of immobile kitchen island lost during kitchen renovation. Allows additional space for storage, cutting, serving, tapping on a laptop, and sunbathing (if you’re my cat, apparently).
“Twin Suns”
Personal Artifact
Material -- White oak, reclaimed from a fallen tree in Los Angeles, California.
Finish -- Rubio Monocoat Pure.
Words --
But why is it, precisely, that two suns cannot burn over the same sky?
Place them far enough out in to space and you’ve already solved the problem.
Their light, combined, will reach just far enough to the surface of the planet that the ferns may unfurl themselves while the salmon sneak through the river to miss a sunbathing bear on the rocks.
They will not burn the skin of man, if they stay so far away. So deep out in the vast black of space. But they will burn for each other.
Yes, they will burn.
Deep in the ink they will dance for another, they will beam for one another, they will smile and twinkle and cry for one another.
Until one day, one day very long from now, they will die for another.
So run, twin suns, run away. Bask in the light of each other for as long as long as you can. Bask until this fleeting cosmic moment ends, and the darkness claims you as dust once more.
HolidayBrush
Gifts for Friends
Materials -- Walnut (Majorly), White Oak (Minorly)
Finish -- Rubio Monocoat Pure
NOTTEKON™
Proximan Artifact
Material -- Elderwood with wyrnut inlay
Technique -- Inlay; on-planet 3D printing
Item Purpose -- Cruise the Proximan skies and battle like a pro pilot with the engaging new game, NOTTEKON™, from Standard Day Studio: the official atelier and archivist and for Proximan settlers!!!
Tripod Stool
Personal Artifact
Material -- Maple with cherry wedges.
Technique -- Through tenon joinery with wedges.
Item Purpose -- Put on, take off shoes. Put feet with shoes up. Put feet without shoes up. Put plant up high. Use as makeshift drum pad. Turn upside down and hold by legs for very poor carrying device.
Tavern Tableau
Proximan Artifact
Material -- Elderwood plaque with wyrnut inlay. The closest Earth relatives to these species are maple (elderwood) and walnut (wyrnut).
Technique -- Inlay.
Item Purpose -- Sign for Proximan speakeasy, found 150 feet below the surface near the dig site. For decoding, please refer to last slide.