Joshua grew up in Cincinnati, exploring the woods and creeks, camping,
and hiking. The son of a sculptor and an engineer, he grew up with tools
in his hands, "reverse engineering" his models, remote control cars,
and toys, always investigating the way things work. He graduated from
the University of Cincinnati, School of DAAP, with a BS in Industrial
Design. After a winding path taking him through jobs doing design
consulting, teaching drawing and pottery, to building rock climbing
gyms, he began doing custom finishing work on residences. This evolved
to designing furniture for these spaces. Joshua is attracted to the way
furniture relates to the human form, both in a piece's finished state,
as well as the process- most work can take place on a bench, and a
project taking up to 3 months (a season) resonates with the natural
cycles around us- and those that created the trees in the first place.
Joshua endeavors to showcase the natural qualities and details of the
wood, bringing out the story inherent in the wood. The design of a
piece is informed by this, and decisions of structure and proportion are
made with these "imperfections" in mind.