Spec vs. Commission

While visiting my site it may be a little confusing as to what it is you’re looking at. Some of the work is speculative. This work is where I am exploring new ideas and filling out a “style”, to give you all a more broad view of that thematic thinking. Not only does this give me an opportunity to experiment but it gives potential clients the opportunity to use this styling and project and translate into a new piece, or set of furniture that is needed for their home or other space. It also gives me an opening to not be bound by anyone else’s expectations, I’m free to use this as a form of personal expression.

Many of these pieces are still for sale. Please ask if interested in something you see.

This of course leads to the commissioned work. My speculative pieces aren’t always the perfect piece needed - sometimes it’s too big, too small, a table instead of a bed, a chair instead of table, too green, too black, too many bumps (too Gothic…? not my intention by the way.) You want a whole dining set or a stool based on one unusual chair - you get the idea. But there are details, or a flavor, something about the design that turns you on with a piece I’ve made (see the chair image at top). Can I design a whole bedroom from a sideboard, or even one little element on that sideboard? Of course, that is what I do. The dining set above came from a Manhattan client's interest in the chair shown above. The commissions you see on my website almost always have come from a conversation and have developed from something the client had seen me do.

Not only does it satisfy my clients, but it also offers me new ideas I hadn’t considered before - it’s all a continuum of thought, a progression of ideas stemming back 30+ years. Once in awhile my client surprises me and comes in with an idea of their own, something I haven’t considered before and it totally turns me on and sets me off on a whole new direction. That can be lot of fun, too, but it can also put me in the awkward position of having to say that just won’t work…The fun for you is that you are not bound by a set line of furniture. You too, are free to explore and fantasize about how your room will change. It is a real pleasure for me to have the confidence of a return client, now a collector, who gives me the freedom to come up with something new - the ’surprise me’ factor, just because it has made a difference in their life.