David Rejeski

Whether you found me on purpose, or though some algorithmic fluke, welcome. I was trained as an industrial designer and had the good fortune to spend many hours in the wood shop with the Danish-born woodworker and educator, Tage Frid. For years, my day job has involved the study of the environmental and societal impacts of advanced technologies, from quantum computing to gene editing and artificial intelligence. Woodworking provided, and continues to provide, an opportunity to switch brain hemispheres.

I design and build pieces for pure contemplation — strictly non-functional explorations (like negative space). Some of my designs explore prototypes suitable for limited production (stacking tables), or interpretations of already-in-production furniture (Ulm Stools), and some creations were designed to simply provoke (table looses leg and table with Louboutin high heels), or entertain (shelf balancing balls or bowl with crumb drain). We need more furnture that makes us think or laugh.

For me, design involves navigating the often risky transitions from thinking to drawing to making, and the feedback loops in between — the movement from ideas towards two and then three dimensions. I live part time in Berlin, Germany, and have been greatly influenced by the German Bauhaus, as well as Shaker furniture, early American arts and crafts, and the studio furniture movement. My wood working shop is in the Berkshires in Western, Massachusetts.

I am a member of the Berkshire Woodworkers Guild and the Furniture Society.

You can contact me at: dave.rejeski@gmail.com