Built-in oak library wall with floor-to-ceiling shelving and a rolling ladder — 1 Millwork & Interiors 2025 Humboldt Park Library & Reading Room 1,400-volume perimeter oak library with integrated radiator heat plenum and rolling brass ladder.

Ten-seat white oak dining table set for a meal in a narrow apartment dining room — 2 Custom Furniture 2025 Ten-Seat White Oak Dining Table Solid rift-sawn white oak with knock-down mechanical joinery engineered for narrow walk-up stairwells.

Ash and blackened steel counter stools lined up along a cafe bar counter — 3 Object Series 2024 Counter Stool Series for a Neighborhood Cafe Twenty-four ash and blackened steel counter stools built on a single jig with field-replaceable foot glides.

Furniture Design · Architectural Millwork · Chicago

Custom furniture, architectural millwork, and the drawing sets that get them built right.

Independent studio in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Designing bespoke tables, built-in libraries, and commercial interiors with direct shop supervision.

123 Main Street, Studio 3B, Chicago, IL 60608 Currently booking custom commissions. Write with your dates and I will tell you what is open.

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Services

What I design, engineer and build.

A one-off dining table and a full-room library start the same way: the room gets measured, the boards get picked by hand, and nothing is cut until the drawings are settled.

Bespoke Furniture Commissions

Dining tables, credenzas, desks and seating, built from hardwood picked board by board for the piece.

Scope and deliverables

$4,200 6–10 weeks

Architectural Millwork & Built-Ins

Full-room library walls, fireplace surrounds, banquette seating, and kitchen islands coordinated directly with your general contractor.

Scope and deliverables

$8,500 8–14 weeks

Production Drawing Sets & Scribe Plans

Exhaustive 2D/3D fabrication drawing sets, hardware schedules, cut lists, and fastener details for independent builders and millshops.

Scope and deliverables

$1,800 2–3 weeks

Material Consulting & Prototyping

Full-scale physical joinery mockups, custom stain and oil finish formulation, and species durability testing for commercial hospitality.

Scope and deliverables

$2,500 3–5 weeks

Method

Clear drawings, then no surprises.

I close the gap between what is drawn and what gets built. You see the site survey, the material samples and the shop drawings before anything is cut.

Laser Survey & Site Constraints

I measure the room first: unlevel subfloors, radiator clearances and tight stairwell turns get solved before a single board is milled.

Shop Drawings & Joinery Engineering

Every mortise, tenon, fastener, and wire chase is detailed in scale CAD drawings. You review joinery samples before timber selection.

Fabrication

Lumber is picked by hand for grain continuity, and you get photos as the piece is milled, dry-fitted and finished.

White-Glove Delivery & Scribe

I lead the final install and scribe, and leave the finish schedule and a touch-up kit with the piece.

Loft storage wall in oiled walnut with tambour roll-front doors, one bay open to shelving — 123 Main Street, Studio 3B, Chicago, IL 60608

Journal

Field notes from the shop floor.

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Why a big table comes apart: knock-down joinery for walk-ups

A deep dive into mechanical steel-to-timber fasteners that allow a 10-foot dining top to clear a 30-inch staircase without sacrificing structural stiffness.

August 14, 2026

Quarter-Sawn vs. Rift-Sawn White Oak: Stability in Midwest Humidity

Analyzing annual expansion rates in Chicago lakefront apartments and why grain orientation dictates internal frame joinery.

July 02, 2026

The Scribe Line: How to Fit Modern Millwork Against 19th-Century Plaster

Techniques for invisible edge scribing without bulky quarter-round molding or caulked seams.

May 19, 2026

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