My primary goal as an artist is to design and construct functional furniture items in a studio setting using traditional joinery methods and techniques. I use a minimalist's approach in my designs, drawing from and adapting furniture forms from the European Baroque and New-classical periods. In addition, I incorporate motives from both ancient and modern sources. In all of my designs I pay very close attention to what Gothic builders called "true measure." True measure is a unity created by the sections and subsections of an object having proportions which are corresponding rations of the object's overall proportions.

The primary meduim of my work is wood. I use steel, aluminum, marble, gold leaf, and glass to accent and highlight many of my pieces. This allows me to explore certain juxtapositions of color and textures in both materials and finishes.

My basic philosophy of both design and construction is based heavily upon 25 years of study and practice as an antiquarian, restorer and conservator of period European and American furniture of the 18th and early 19th centuries. I see my work more as a contiuum than a radical break with the past, though I in no way want to copy or repeat what has already been done.