Learning comfort through form.
This project was built as a way to study chair-making through the body, but also through apprenticeship at a distance. A mentor to a craftsperson is not only someone who gives direct instruction. Sometimes it is a body of work that keeps teaching you how to look, how to cut, how to soften a transition, and how to let structure carry feeling.
With Maloof, that lesson lives in both form and spirit: in the sculpted joins, the technical confidence, and the sense that a workshop can be a place of patience, generosity, and exactness at once. The carved seat became my way into that lineage, testing how wood can be shaped not only to carry load, but to receive a body with more care, contact, and quiet precision.