Design

“Ooh, a storm is threat’ning My very life today If I don’t get some shelter Ooh yeah, I’m gonna fade away” ––The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter What is shelter? Where do humans seek it? If one were to boil these questions down to their fundamental essence, humans seek shelter wherever we can find it. And this year, where the Californian finds it is in the calm eye of each of the four season’s hurricanes, aptly named Pandemic, Global Warming, Drought and Wildfire. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, our…

I'm standing in the foyer lobby of the house . Finally, here, I was able to utilize all these different experiences of working with finished concrete in a super-engineered sculptural way in this staircase. For myself, being so involved with concrete for so long, for so many years, this is the pièce de résistance of sculpture and function all coming together in one fell swoop. Each one of these treads weighs approximately 250 pounds. They were "sledded" in on tracks. The guys moved each tread and slid it on so…