I have been an active furniture designer and woodworker for over twenty years. While my primary interest is in Campaign, knock-down furniture and innovative metal hardware, my own furniture and artwork draws mostly on discarded wood and found objects. My pieces have recently been exhibited at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City, the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, The Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia, Penland Gallery, NC, as well as SOFA Chicago. I have published articles on woodworking and design in Woodwork Magazine, American Woodworker, as well as several prominent Israeli design publications. Additionally, I have curated a number of furniture shows in the U.S. and in Israel.
My pieces have been featured in Lark’s 500 Tables, 500 Wooden Bowls, 500 Cabinets and 500 Judaica books, and in Mind & Hand: Contemporary Studio Furniture, (Schiffer books 2012). In addition, I am a tool inventor. My line of new magnetic measuring tools is currently under production by Lee Valley, Inc., and my most recent woodworking tool is made by Rockler, Inc. In 2018 I published my first book, Working Reclaimed Wood: A Guide for Woodworkers, Makers & Designers, published by Popular Woodworking Books an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018.
I created and led the Woodworking and Creativity Program at Harvard University's Eliot House, (2003-2011) where I taught seminars in woodworking and furniture design for beginning and advanced students. I was also an adjunct faculty member at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel where I develop and taught core classes in furniture design and material studies.
In 2010-11 I was a Windgate Foundation Artist in Residence/Fellow at Purchase College, New York (Fall 2010). I was also an Artist in Residence and instructor at the Worcester Center for Craft in Worcester, Massachusetts (2001-2003). My teaching experience was enriched by several stints at Peters Valley and Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. I live in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, and teach woodworking and design at the Rudolf Steiner School in Manhattan.
My pieces have been featured in Lark’s 500 Tables, 500 Wooden Bowls, 500 Cabinets and 500 Judaica books, and in Mind & Hand: Contemporary Studio Furniture, (Schiffer books 2012). In addition, I am a tool inventor. My line of new magnetic measuring tools is currently under production by Lee Valley, Inc., and my most recent woodworking tool is made by Rockler, Inc. In 2018 I published my first book, Working Reclaimed Wood: A Guide for Woodworkers, Makers & Designers, published by Popular Woodworking Books an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018.
I created and led the Woodworking and Creativity Program at Harvard University's Eliot House, (2003-2011) where I taught seminars in woodworking and furniture design for beginning and advanced students. I was also an adjunct faculty member at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel where I develop and taught core classes in furniture design and material studies.
In 2010-11 I was a Windgate Foundation Artist in Residence/Fellow at Purchase College, New York (Fall 2010). I was also an Artist in Residence and instructor at the Worcester Center for Craft in Worcester, Massachusetts (2001-2003). My teaching experience was enriched by several stints at Peters Valley and Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. I live in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, and teach woodworking and design at the Rudolf Steiner School in Manhattan.
