Venn Modular Seating
May 2025

Venn is a modular sofa system built on the potential of soft, flexible, communal spaces. Designed as a kit of parts, the system can be tailored to fit different needs.

Upholstered in a dynamic palette of Maharam fabrics, Venn celebrates playful and unexpected interactions in color.

Fabric, foam, plywood, wood, webbing.

Fabric support from Maharam.
Photos by August Ostrow.

Category
Furniture

Soft Potential
May 2025

Soft Potential, my thesis body of work at RISD, highlights the potential of furniture and objects to encourage idiosyncratic and open usage through flexible, modular systems. This reflects my aim of designing non-prescriptive work, exercising a soft approach to furniture design.

Softness is a guiding principle. Color, curved lines, textiles, and wood are combined to invite tactile interaction.

Softness is a rejection of rigidity in support of human tenderness and agency.

Photos by August Ostrow.

Category
Furniture

Peek Display Shleving
May 2024

A modular shelving system translating paper construction methods to sheet metal manufacturing techniques. Geometric ledges display precious and everyday belongings.

A RISD x Bestcase collaboration.

Photos by Jonah Takagi.

Category
Furniture

Soft Wall System
May 2025

A wall system created from a generative, circular grid. An exercise in translating two-dimensional constraints into three-dimensional, functional forms. The system can expand to include shelving, mirrors, and soft panels.

Maple, mirror, fabric, foam, MDF.

Fabric support from Maharam.
Ceramic vase by Chris Baker.
Photos by August Ostrow.

Category
Furniture

Tangent
January 2024

Geometric forms and angles designed to offer lumbar support. Playful, interchangeable cushions.

Red oak, custom-printed fabric via dye sublimation, foam.

Category
Furniture

~be holding~
April 2024

Four forms created from modular slipcasting molds. Meant to be unearthed and held gently.

Glazed stoneware, upholstered plinth with plywood.

Category
Ceramic

Rotten Quilt
November 2023

Large-format patchwork “quilt.” Colors are derived from a still-life painting featuring a technicolor, rotting apricot.

Cotton.

Category
Soft

Flower Play: Sunrise
August 2023

Interactive forms creating custom floral arrangements.
Completed as Artist-in-Residence at the Printing Museum in Houston, TX.

Risograph-printed paper.

Category
Paper Construction

Playground Series: Rose
April 2022

A playful collection of functional and sculptural forms in dialogue with one another.

Glazed stoneware.

Category
Ceramic

Jennifer Choi