This design came about by collaborating with the client who happens to be a financial adviser but formerly a woodworker himself. It was first conceived as an idea derived from an amazing tree with buttress-like roots that may be a baobab, Adonsonia. The desk faces the rooms entrance and we needed to create a front panel. I ...

This is a desk I was commissioned to design and build using locally harvested Miami wood, salvaged from hurricane damaged trees. These blocks in the foreground are the pieces to be used for the custom executive desk. Each chunk of wood will be sawn into lumber. This wood has verious names, Albezzia, West Indies Walnut. After being sawn ...

The job involved taking a favorite living room cabinet and adapting it to a new, large HDTV. This picture shows the new wider center section for the new TV, rear panel and shelves for the cable box, other components, and base. The top crown piece remained.... I just loosened it and slid the two existing side towers ...

I enjoy making desks, even if they are not made of wood. The customer who came to me sent a picture of one he saw in a magazine. We changed the size a bit and used tanned leather instead of cow's fur(?) shown in his photo. The frame structure is welded rebar, something you normally would not see ...

Here we have a 5ft. tall mirror and exotic wood frame that is also a storage case for the owner's jewelry collection. It is designed to mount on a wall, then swung open to select from the assortment of rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets. The customer who came to me conceived of the idea to present ...

I call this desk tailor-made because the designing of the shape was not too unlike having a new suit or dress made to one's exact proportions. Here it was a balance of it's position in the room to suit the users field of vision in relation to the rooms door and windows and TV, and ...

This piece was built as a companion to the HDTV Enclosure wall unit with sliding doors on the opposite side of the room. Like it's sister this solid cherrywood furniture is primarily for displaying fine handmade collectables in a finely handmade piece of furniture. Cherry is a quality wood that is readily available, has a ...

I had the pleasure of designing this and another side table for someone who I know right away did not fit any molds and took pleasure in having unique, finely crafted objects. I have tons of tropical hardwood logs in my private stash left over from some of Miami's hurricanes and land development and as ...

I was commissioned to design this solid wood cabinet for a married couple, the husband wanted the TV concealed when not in use and the wife wanted a place to show her collectibles of their world travels. Both have an appreciation for hand-made things and a close tie with the places of origin. Keeping the ...

This eye-catching piece was designed to hold the DLP type projection TV unit but to allow only the image screen to be exposed, and because of its size (24" deep), be made with an open shelf design. This provides maximum lighting for the clients beautiful art glass collection and keeps the unit from intruding too ...

This client had just built a new family room addition. Being the director of Miami's Arts and Film Media I figured I better do a good job on his media cabinet! I designed this piece with a few features they had seen in various catalogs, such as wood louvers, halogen lights, crown moulding at the ...

Here is an assortment of display cubes made of glass and mahogany for the gift shop of historic St. Judes Catholic church. The design by a local architect, features locking, slide-out trays and a storage compartment underneath. The cubes can be arranged to suit various configurations. The religious icons sit in a black velvet fabric ...

This solid wood piece is designed to have minimum depth of only 14" and has full-extension slides. The style follows that of the bed platform which is 2" thick, and the color to match exactly. The clients selected the hardware.    

The decorator showed me a magazine picture and from that I built two of these cocktail tables and four sofa end tables to make a set. She saw the marquetry work I did on the Desk Armoire doors and asked for something similar for the tops. To protect the veneer, I applied a tough acrylic ...

This chest of drawers was made using material that was once a room divider-type of bookcase in the old house in which it still resides. Old, seasoned, long-leaf pine works easily, as if it were a hardwood. The rich tones cannot be found in new lumber which lack the resin content. The top of this ...

This contemporary cabinet with shelves was made as a copy from an item of furniture the client had seen years ago, but had not been able to purchase then. The double doors, dyed green, slide to open the TV/stereo compartment and tape storage drawers. A simple, but affective way to conceal darkly-colored appliances that don't ...

I placed this item in this category rather than Architectural because they are only 42"X36" wide and custom-made as an accessory to the bedroom furniture. The room has an embrasure-like cutout above the front hall. I recycled some very old boards and used rusted, reproduction hardware.  

Approximately 36 in. tall. I built this piece for my workshop in order to test an idea for a dovetail joint that attaches the side rails to the legs. It has a Mission Style feel to it.  

The piece was conceived as a (home)work station for the client's children, to be placed on the second floor hall-balcony, making it visible from the grand foyer below. The location, as well as the dimensional requirements, put me to task to create a harmony of function and form. The focal point is the two large ...

A musician-friend of mine asked me to build this case to hold a mixing board he needs to have with him at gigs. The wood is called lysaloma, a strong but lightweight material that grows local to our area in South Florida.  

The owners of this house had just completed extensive remodeling throughout and did not want to diminish their efforts by placing a painted metal grill on their new walls. This piece more closely matches the rest of their decor. The frame is mounted on a hinge to enable easy filter changes.

(56x37x15 inches). The wood used for this piece was collected where it grows in South Florida. It was highly prized by European woodworkers in previous centuries when it was exported primarily from Cuba. There is no comparison in other varieties of mahogany for its rich color, grain and perfect density for carving and acoustical resonance ...

Solid mahogany with royal palm inlay, length 9 ft., Built with traditional dovetail and mortise/tenon joinery, this piece has heirloom quality. All solid wood furniture with lasting strength require this old-world joinery because of subtle changes in a rooms ambient temperature and humidity which causes wood parts to swell and contract hydraulically relative to each ...

Mahogany and Caribbean pine. When Captain Elroy decided to sell his boat, "Seawolf", one of the few things he took to land included this brass clock that chimes to indicate a crew rotation. His house lacked a bulkhead to place it into, so I made this simple holder.  

Varnished walnut, 14 in. tall.