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Pulp Floor Lamp, B&W

2024

Cotton linters, corn starch, milk paint, muslin, Oak wood, lighting assembly

24 x 24 x 66” H

This object looks to the inherent environmental benefits of paper making craft to inform the means and methods of developing three-dimensional objects. The fabrication is rooted in traditional paper making materials and processes and has served as a point of departure to explore novel techniques for structure, mark making and surface treatment.

Pulp Floor Lamp, B&W is made of natural materials and is of archival quality.

Chair 03, Black

2024

Cotton linters, post consumer pulp, muslin, corn starch, milk paint

24 x 24 x 36” H

This work looks at the inherent environmental benefits of paper making craft to inform the means and methods of developing three dimensional, structural objects. The fabrication is rooted in traditional paper making materials and methods and has served as a point of departure to explore novel techniques for structure, mark making, and surface treatment.

Fiber Table Lamp, Amate

2024

Amate paper, muslin, corn starch, rattan, lighting assembly

14 x 14 x 18” H

This object is made with Amate, an ancient paper making
technique native to Mesoamerica. The fibers are woven into a grid pattern and carefully pounded into a sheet with a stone. These Amate sheets are sourced from the San Pablito region of Puebla Mexico and made from the fiber of the Ficus Tree and the Mulberry Bush.

The Amate Lamp is made of natural materials, will last as long as you’d like (indoors) and compost or recycle at end of life.

Chair 03, Brown

2024

Post consumer pulp, muslin, corn starch

24 x 24 x 36” H

This work looks at the inherent environmental benefits of paper making craft to inform the means and methods of developing three dimensional, structural objects. The fabrication is rooted in traditional paper making materials and methods and has served as a point of departure to explore novel techniques for structure, mark making, and surface treatment.

Fiber Lamp, Amate

2024

Amate paper, muslin, corn starch, rattan, lighting assembly
24 x 24 x 36” H

This object is made with Amate, an ancient paper making
technique native to Mesoamerica. The fibers are woven into a grid pattern and carefully pounded into a sheet with a stone. These Amate sheets are sourced from the San Pablito region of Puebla Mexico and made from the fiber of the Ficus Tree and the Mulberry Bush.

The Amate Lamp is made of natural materials, will last as long as you’d like (indoors) and compost or recycle at end of life.

Oxidized Table Lamp, Copper/Zinc Blend

2024

Muslin, cornstarch, faux gold leaf, milk paint, rattan, lighting assembly

16 x 16 x 18” H

Faux gold leaf consists of a copper-zinc blend and offers a
beautiful range of gold and blue hues when oxidized.

This sculptural lamp gestures towards it’s experimental composition in materiality and organic form.

Chair 03, Amate

2024

Post consumer pulp, muslin, handmade Amate paper, Ccrn starch

24 x 24 x 36” H

This environmentally conscious chair utilizes natural and recycled fibers and the ancient Amate paper making technique. The artists, Samuel Aguirre and Tony Torres, first met in 2023 during a papermaking class, inspiring Samuel to explore 3D objects rooted in traditional paper making. Tony, a Chicano artist, integrates the Amate technique into his work to illuminate Mesoamerican history. This interdisciplinary project merges future furniture design with historical practices, resulting in a symbolic Chair 3, Amate.

Produced in collaboration with Artist Tony Torres.

Counting The Days Credenza

2024

Ash wood, bronze hardware, cornstarch, glass, mulberry fiber, post-consumer paper pulp

18 x 60 x 36” H

This environmentally conscious chair utilizes natural and recycled fibers and the ancient Amate paper making technique. The artists, Samuel Aguirre and Tony Torres, first met in 2023 during a papermaking class, inspiring Samuel to explore 3D objects rooted in traditional paper making. Tony, a Chicano artist, integrates the Amate technique into his work to illuminate Mesoamerican history. This interdisciplinary project merges future furniture design with historical practices, resulting in a symbolic Chair 3, Amate.

Produced in collaboration with Artist Tony Torres.

Pulp Lamp, Amate

2023

Post consumer pulp, muslin, handmade Amate paper, corn starch, lighting assembly, glass

24 x 24 x 36” H

This grid lamp utilizes natural and recycled fibers and the ancient Amate paper making technique. The artists, Samuel Aguirre and Tony Torres, first met in 2023 during a papermaking class, inspiring Samuel to explore 3D objects rooted in traditional paper making. Tony, a Chicano artist, integrates the Amate technique into his work to illuminate Mesoamerican history. This interdisciplinary project merges furniture craft with historical practices, resulting in a symbolic object.

Produced in collaboration with Artist Tony Torres.

Fiber Lamp, Sprinkles

2023

Handmade paper, muslin, cornstarch, Maple wood, lighting assembly

24 x 24 x 36” H

This object looks at the inherent environmental benefits of paper making craft to inform the means and methods of developing three dimensional objects. The fabrication is rooted in traditional paper-making materials and processes and has served as a point of departure to explore novel techniques for structure, mark making and surface treatment.

Paper Lamp, Sprinkles is made of natural materials, will last as long as you’d like (indoors) and compost or recycle at end of life.

Credenza 01, Sprinkles

18” x 60” x 30” H

2023

Cast bronze pulls, milk paint , cotton fiber, abaca fiber, solid poplar armature.

Credenza 01 looks to the inherent environmental benefits of paper making craft as a point of departure to explore novel techniques for structure, mark making and surface treatment with three dimensional, structural objects.

Chair 03, Lite

2023

Cardboard, kraft paper, muslin, corn starch

24 x 24 x 36” H

Chair 03V08 Lite, is an ultra lite plant-based, compostable chair made of post-consumer paper pulp, corn starch and woven cotton. The use of commercially available materials is intentional as it tells us what is possible, at scale, here and now, to directly address our dependence on oil. Chair 03, Lite is a proof of concept: proof that our hurdle is not a matter of resources, but design ingenuity and industriousness.

Chair 03, Chunky

2023

Cardboard, kraft paper, muslin, corn starch

24 x 24 x 36” H

Chair 03 Chunky, is the first in a series of compostable chairs made of natural materials. The use of commercially available materials is intentional as it tells us what is possible, at scale, here and now, to directly address our dependence on oil. Chair 03 Chunky is a proof of concept: proof that our hurdle is not a matter of resources, but design ingenuity and industriousness.