My goal is to provide fine art to my clients over a lifetime of use, to share with them the simple clarity of my designs, which stresses the natural beauty of Australian timber species and my love for finely handcrafted objects.

I live and work in the Dandenong Ranges, in Selby, which is 45km East of Melbourne, on the edge of the Sherbrooke National Park, particularly renowned for its popular steam train (Puffing Billy) and for its magnificent eucalypt forests. My aim is to work extensively with Australian grown timber (no endangered species and no stock from old growth rainforests) and particularly local timber from the Dandenong Ranges as I have started to do my own milling from trees fallen on my own property and in the forests around. I also bring back from the verge of destruction and fire disused fine timber that I find in bins, on construction sites and sometimes on the footpath.

I design fine furniture using the finest materials available to me, being timber and fine brass hinges since all the knobs, door latches, shelve supports etc… are made of wood and in my shop. I bring those materials to life following my own philosophy together with certain or no requirements from my clients, and my personal techniques learned from the tradition of French ébénistes.

I was born and I studied in France, my woodworking career beginning in 1979 with three years of intensive training in a technical college, where quality work and design were of utmost importance and where we acquired thorough knowledge of both traditional and modern construction methods, the last and third year being mainly focused on marquetry.

Common to all the objects I have created and to all those I will design is a true, honest and modest aesthetic philosophy that relies essentially on the natural beauty of wood and emphasizes a profound involvement to a high level of craftsmanship.