FOLIO

The name returns to the oldest unit of the book. A folio — from Latin folium or leaf is a single sheet folded once to produce two pages. The piece restates that gesture four times in leather.

The piece begins at the threshold. Every home has one corner where the day is set down and picked up again. The coat is removed, the bag dropped, the unread magazine left for later, a low ledge for keys, a shelf for newspapers. The intention here was to gather those uncoordinated fragments into a single, dignified vertical object. 

Drawn at its purest from Japanese sashimono technique, is the conviction that the joint should be the ornament. What emerges is ritual furniture. The object asks for very little, a square foot of floor and gives back the small, daily pleasure of a place to put things down on the way in, and a place to find them again on the way out.