Citizen Salvage

ME
I’m an artisan/builder which means I make functional pieces from salvage, reclaimed materials and artifacts - artistically - one piece at a time. For the past twenty-five years I've made custom FF+F for commercial interior design projects like cafes and hotel lobbies, wine bars and retail showrooms.

STORY
In addition to the building, I collect and document stories of other artisans who reshape our world from the remains. It's to be a book: Citizen Salvage Truck Farm. The book tells the stories of a revolution; it's a call to dumpster divers, salvage yard seekers and the backroads kind of folk to do the ultimate green thing – reuse + restore, recover + reclaim our material lifelines. This is a shout to history lovers and social activists, high end designers and antique junkies. If you happen to be one of those folks, you'll probably like my stuff.
https://citizensalvage.wordpress.com/

DESIGN
I believe the work transcends shifting design styles. To call up 'The Big Lebowski', it's not the rug that ties the room together, it's the hand-crafted chair or the table made from workshop 'drop' or boards seasoned in an open field from a fallen barn. It's a table or a lamp adorned with the door pull from an old Ford or an iron grill vent from a coal stove. Simply, my work is a physical story with each piece making the connection between our natural world and what we can’t seem to leave behind.