about

My design practice has always been rooted in more than aesthetics — it’s about creating spaces that breathe, that listen to the land, that invite stillness and presence. Years of working as a landscape designer taught me that gardens are not just built; they’re revealed — shaped slowly by hand, light, and time. In that same spirit, I began crafting sculptural pieces that could live within these landscapes, not as objects, but as anchors — quiet forms that hold space the way a boulder or tree might.

The Ridge Bench emerged from this impulse — to bring something elemental into the garden. Poured in concrete, yet textured like wood, it feels both found and made. A meeting of permanence and imperfection. Each bench is a small topography, an intentional pause in the rhythm of a space. It exists to reconnect us to the ground, to offer a seat with weight, with history, with grain. Not furniture in the traditional sense, but a sculptural companion to nature — a form that belongs outside.

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-KC Carlisle