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530 Q Street
Central Sacramento, CA, 95811

Designer & maker of modern lighting, mobiles, and clocks. From residential to site-specific public art installations. Sacramento, CA.

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Modern Lighting, Mobiles, Wall Clocks, and Site-specific Commissions

LIGHTING

LIGHTING

MOBILES

MOBILES

WALL CLOCKS

WALL CLOCKS

COMMISSIONED WORK

COMMISSIONED WORK

News + Updates:

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Orb Pedestals for Glazing
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Bespoke Orb Fixtures
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AIA Central Valley Panel Discussion
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Sactown Magazine, October 2015
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West Edge Design Fair // Oct. 22-25
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Modern Flight Mobiles Installed at Kaiser
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Recent posts on Instagram:

Thanks to the folks at Chocolate Fish Coffee for the latest lighting commission! This site-specific installation is part of their beautiful new location at 2940 Freeport Blvd between Land Park and Curtis Park. They came to me with a concept and it was my challenge to bring it into reality while keeping their budget in mind. The 31 fixtures are composed mostly of off-the-shelf parts w/ a few bespoke elements to bring it all together. (Images 1 & 2 📷 credit: @chocfishcoffee)
I started the new lighting installation at the Freeport @chocfishcoffee yesterday. The space was bustling with multiple trades working to get the build out wrapped up. I’m hoping there’s a bit more space for the lighting guy today 😄
My immense thanks go out to the Hunts, a husband-wife developer team, who selected my pendants for their current project, a 6-unit building in San Francisco’s Mission District. They discovered our pendants at @themillsf, the site of our first installation of these back in 2013. Each unit is getting 4-5 Aspect Pendants in glazed stoneware in either black or white. Swipe through to see the journey from dry ingredients to the final destination just 90 miles away. I’ll post images of them installed once available.
this remarkable transformation thanks to a little heat, ~ 2200 deg F 🌞🔥
For the process junkies out there, this sequence illustrates the steps involved in creating a clean circular opening in the bottom of our Aspect Pendants. Photos: 1: The mold is in this orientation (with the pendant right side up) when filled. Slip is poured into the small hole in the top. Though it’d be easier to fill if the mold was inverted, we found that this orientation yields a better bottom rim. The strap secures the 2 mold halves together and also holds the bottom plug in place (seen in next image). . 2: Here’s the bottom view of the mold. The center plug gets popped out to drain the slip. This mold holds ~ 4 gallons of slip (~ 64 lbs in slip alone). Draining it from the bottom saves the step and effort of turning over this big mold to drain it. 3: The larger plaster ‘donut’ provides a smaller drain opening, yet allows more control to later trim the final opening. 4-8: These images show the process of trimming the main bottom opening of the pendant. First a rough pass, then right against the plaster with a custom X-acto knife (with the blade justified to the outside edge), and a final sponge swipe. Timing is crucial for this stage, as the clay must be dry enough to hold its form, but not too dry where it is brittle and prone to breaking. If I don’t plan to be in the shop when the timing is right, I have to wrap the mold in a plastic bag to slow the drying process. 9: And finally the bottom half of the pendant is revealed.💥
It took some Tetris skills, but I was able to squeeze 3 of our Squat Aspect Pendants into the big kiln. The diameter is too big to fit more than one on a shelf. I was hoping to go 3 tiers high, but was just ~1/2” too tall. Luckily, I stumbled upon this smaller half shelf and it just fit the space.
These little flanged discs are cast, then stamped. They’re a detail at the top of our Aspect Pendants.
Laying out the next lighting installation for the new @chocfishcoffee on Freeport with #andrewturnerconstruction