Owner / Designer / Maker
After previously working as a structural design engineer, I took my vigor for contemporary, minimalist forms, and channeled this into a new career. The combination of these interests motivated me to complete a certificate III in micro-business and attend an intensive course at the New Zealand Centre for Fine Woodworking. There I learnt and applied new skills such as coopering, dovetailing and steam-bending techniques for tools , carcass pieces, and seated furniture.
My designs take inspiration from ergonomic, minimalist forms. This has informed a progressive furniture style which draws on Japanese and Danish furniture details. As such, I enjoy exposing joinery in my pieces, allowing for each client to be informed of how, and why particular joinery was employed, and affording the joinery to be celebrated.
To purchase an aesyk piece, is to purchase an experience. A piece of custom furniture which has been built to be used, to be admired, and to be passed on.