Born in Santa Clara, Cuba, 1960, American.

I can still remember my dad teaching me how to draw at a young age and I would hang out in the labs and shops at the University where he taught engineering. I’d be amazed at the machines, the odd objects, and the things they did. They had a small foundry there and one time they had cast a few dozen beautiful Soviet MiG 15’s in solid aluminum. I was so thrilled when they gave me one as a toy! This exposure provided me much curiosity and influences in those first 6 years in Central Cuba.

During my teen years in Michigan and Iowa, I took all the courses in school for woodworking and drafting as possible as I began to develop my passion. Fresh out of high school in 1979 I was hired by a small woodworking shop in Rochester, Michigan until I ventured out to start my own studio in 1981. Winning “Best of Show” in Woodworking ‘82, in Troy, Michigan.

In now my 44th year of practice, I’ve long realized that innovative objects properly refined yield the most elegant and desirable results. Along with hundreds of private commissions, my furniture has been exhibited twice at the Detroit Institute of Arts. At El Museo Del Barrio in New York and has been featured in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum Latino Hispanic Archive in New York.

I apply the highest standards of design, woodworking, ergonomics and finishing techniques that have helped me cultivate an international style and clientele. I spend most of my time developing and creating functional decorative objects and furniture pieces in my studio in Michigan. Over a career as a full time professional designer and craftsman, I’ve been blessed to develop a following throughout the country and around the world, with work across the US, Canada, Mexico, France, England, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and certainly many others and have amassed an extensive list of internationally renowned people and corporations as collectors, customers, and friends.