After nearly twenty years in Los Angeles and now based between Europe and Indonesia, the thread that runs through my work is a lifelong love for travel, design, and sourcing. My style is grounded in natural textures and organic forms, with an edge that balances refinement and rebellion. Design for me has always flowed between fashion and interiors, each shaping how we live, feel, and move through space.

In my early years, I studied furniture design and woodworking at Otis College of Art & Design, later taking side courses in DTLA for welding and other fabrication methods. I released a furniture line for the LA Design Festival in 2014 that combined metal, concrete, and reclaimed wood — materials mixed and poured into one another to create sculptural, raw forms. I also produced a collection celebrating Japanese joinery and experimented with Shou Sugi Ban, the art of burning wood to finish and protect it. Shortly after, I moved into construction and renovations between Malibu and Maui, while also running a blog called Furniture Porn, where I interviewed designers in downtown Los Angeles and on the weekends I would drive north, collecting reclaimed wood from old barns.

Those explorations eventually led to a pop-up store, event space and art studio in Venice Beach — a project that pulled me deeper into building and production. I went on to work in a prop house, fabricating animatronics for Google and oversized installations for Patrón Tequila at Coachella, alongside fabricators who had worked on films like Men in Black, Ghostbusters, and Ghost.

From there, my path turned toward fashion and sourcing. I traveled through central Mexico, Morocco, Cuenca, Ecuador, and Java, Indonesia — manufacturing, learning techniques firsthand, and absorbing the culture woven into every process. Yet through it all, my heart remained with interiors: the way light transforms a room, the way texture shapes mood, the way objects carry presence.

While building and running personal brands has been taught me so much, what I’ve come to value most is being a resource for others — helping them bring their visions to life, weaving people and ideas together, and creating space for collaboration.

Looking back, the best lesson I’ve carried through every twist and turn is that almost everything is figureoutable — if you’re willing to say yes - and to always stay curious.