I am driven by the search for optimism in the built environment. Design is one of the few places where you can actually practice optimism, where you can take a position on what it means to live well in this moment rather than reaching backward for it. I think a lot about finding a sense of place in our time, and how objects can help anchor that. The micro carries the macro, and materiality is where I find it most clearly. Grain, texture, machine marks, the way light interacts with a material. Th...
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