3/4" thick Starfire kiln formed plate glass, stainless steel cable

Zoltan and I worked from a pencil drawing of his concept. I then brought my expertise in joinery and CNC machining to help resolve the need for a timely completion date. 

 We executed Zoltan's design in reclaimed native Texas pecan with powder-coated steel accents and structural components. The pecan was harvested on Onion Creek in Austin. The logs were cut on my sawmill and dried in the kilns located at my shop on 730 Shady Lane . 

These door pulls are forged out of single pieces of steel.

This door was designed and commissioned by Alterstudio Architects for a new house.  The entire residence is low-key, modern, and solid.

These doors required a technical feat.  Griffin and Heather were building the house of their dreams.  They wanted their new doors to contain lumber from fallen trees on their land.  That was not difficult.  Texas Kiln Products provided the milling and kiln-drying.  Live oak lumber is gorgeous and exotically figured.  However, it is notoriously unstable.  It won't stay flat, which is not good for doors.  I milled the live oak to 1/4" thickness and glued it to a marine-grade substrate, first covering the egdes of the plywood with live oak nosing.  The doors look like solid lumber, but are shop-built composites that stay very flat indeed.

Griffin and Heather also found large quartz rocks on the property.  I located a lapidary who sliced the stones to 3/8" thick and polished the surfaces. 

I designed the doors with a woven pattern of structural rails.  Light passes through the glass and quartz panels.  Visitors can be seen from afar, descending the hill to the entry way.

This is an Anderson/Wise project that we worked on over the course of 1 1/2 years.  We did all the ornamental and architectural metalwork in the home as well as some structural steel retaining walls that elevated the backyard 4' above the adjacent yards to allow for installation of an ingound pool.  Some of the a work that we are most proud of is the cantilevered garage awning, the outdoor fireplace,  the simple curved handrail and the front fencing with custom pedestrian and driveway gates.  The fencing panels were recycled from a church in Pennsylvania and were made from wrought iron, a material which has not been produced for almost 100 years.  The fence panels date back to the 1870's.

A pair of cherry bi-folding doors add privacy to an office/guest quarters.   milled and hand-painted cherry blossom image integrated into door panels.  

These projects were commissioned by Castleview Productions for their new office in central Austin. We designed these projects to meet their budget, and we built and delivered everything to meet their time frame. During the design phase, they gave us plenty of room to use our imaginations. To keep costs down, we specified stained maple, painted formaldehyde-free mdf, and ordinary steel. And we even used a salvaged stainless steel refrigerator door for the bar in the kitchen!

A Niche at the end of the hall way- which was another room disguised behind ....the niche - an inset in the wall to display sculpture.