This Is Our Lot
David builds furniture from salvaged pieces of old industrial office supplies. For instance, he transforms a filing cabinet into a coffee table, repurposes vintage steel drawers with new hardware and, voila, there’s a piece of furniture for your living room that cannot be found at Ikea.
His studio is in Frogtown, a wooly part of Los Angeles that is situated between Echo Park and Downtown. The area is not as gentrified as Echo Park or Silverlake, and has a working class feel to it. So David’s furniture fits in well.
He goes shopping in scrap yards for material, using mixed matter for straightforward renovations. There are recycled frames and new surfaces and vice versa. It’s the ideal mix of old and new, building a minimalist version of your grandfather’s tool shed.
