A large format charcoal on canvas illustration by Samsonovich becomes a dramatic backdrop for a photoshoot featuring his first product offering, "The Hundred Year Table".

"Monastic Minimalism" was my theme for this styling. Large dramatic artworks, an everlasting product, and a single open journal - an ode to timelessness and meditation.

The table itself was designed for easy assembly - just 3 hand screws on each side secure the welded steel trestle frames to the wood top. This product was intentionally overbuilt to ensure 100 years of wobble-free use.

In 2021, Fast Company profiled my company, Head of Marble and myself in a sweeping conversation regarding unsustainable practices within the furniture industry. The article positioned me as a leader in developing new and sustainable production modalities for scalable furniture products.

The world is filled with uncomfortable chairs and ergonomics seems resigned to office settings. Why? That became the basis of my exploration and decision to attempt to make not only the world's most comfortable chair but one devoid of space-ship molded plastic aesthetics.

The idea was to democratize comfort and make ergonomic seating possible anywhere one may sit, whether it's at a dining table or a desk.

The challenge lay not only in comfort and form, but in making a product that had aesthetic versatility - not too "office" and just the right amount of "home".

A pile of sketchbooks, with varying ideas for visual art and industrial design, where all ideas are born.

2018. I had been thinking about this for years. I dug back in my notebooks to find an early sketch for a chair with multiple touch points on the back and side fixtures. The lumbar support would become my focal point in designing for comfort.

A quickly put together prototype for a chair made from leftover wood. This "skeleton" would have adjustable back supports, with the possibility that different back supports and styles could be added to the "neutral" base design.

A modular art installation by Mark Samsonovich made at the same time as chair prototype. An example of how interests in modularity and hardware design were occurring simultaneously.

After 3 weeks and several hundred hours of design work, I designed and modeled every detail of The Ergonomic Chair. Chiropractors are consulted for specifications on ideal lumbar and upper back support. Theoretically, it should be amazingly comfortable.

The chair features adjustable knobs that allow for fully customized back support, which also flexes and "bounces" with movement.

It's truly an exceptional product and with all humility, I can proudly say it is the most comfortable seating experience on the market.

The next step was to style it in a variety of settings - my intention here was to eschew the overly aspirational settings common to furniture styling at the time and shoot for something that felt familiar and approachable to the contemporary city and post-city dwelling customer.

My journey culminated in a feature by Design Milk, which spoke on my desire to change consumer expectations of not only what ergonomic seating looked like, but how it could feel equally at home with every other piece of furniture one lives with.

The next stage in my design journey was to produce a line of home goods. My goal was to create an entirely new vocabulary for the category.

A simple but elegant L-bracket holds a bouquet of dried flowers.

Eventually the product evolved, and became a scent diffuser in addition to the dried flowers. I also designed a collection of scents.

My journey into scent design evolved into experimental diffusers and candles.

One may drop scented fragrance onto the cedar ball. The candle is otherwise unscented.

A display case for a collection of block prints I had been creating for the past decade.

The display case has the dual functionality being hung from a wall or resting on a surface.

36 prints sit inside the case, and collectors may lift the steel lid to rotate which of their favorite prints they’d like to display next, allowing for a rotating gallery without the clutter.

The press behind Head of Marble grew the brand and we ended up getting some interesting work, from custom projects to large contract orders. Here is a feature in the NYT of a furniture collaboration between us, the owner, and the interior designer. We built 50 tables for the restaurant.

Explorations into restaurant tables. Unrealized.

Renderings for a home office for a VIP manhattan client.

Floating book display case with custom designed brackets for easy assembly.

Designed to frame a large projection for a home theater experience.

Custom hardware designed and fabricated for an easy-to-build book display.

Custom couch designed with a CNC cutout for a large plant, as well as a built in credenza that breaks up the large space and acts as a natural divider.

The entire couch is designed to easily assemble and dissassmble using no tools.

Custom CNC'd floating shelf cut to match an irregular angle.

Built-in floating side table for a custom bedframe.

Entryway key hook, scent diffuser, and dried floral display.

My love for arranged dried flowers will never end.