Built by Dmitri

Work

Selected work

A sampling of recent pieces — mirrors, casework, entries, and one-off feature elements, each planned completely and built by one set of hands.

Sculptural mirror

A wall mirror with a hand-shaped frame — irregular, splashing edges cut and built up by hand, then finished in white lacquer. Meant to read as a single feature piece on the wall, not a fixture.

Poplar / lacquer / mirror
Wall mirror with an irregular, splash-shaped white lacquered frame
Fig. 01hand-shaped frame. 2024

Carved niche screen

Three arched display niches framed by an intricately carved wood screen, set flush into the wall beside a steel-framed glass door. Where a piece like this lives or dies is the fit — the screen has to meet the wall on every edge with no filler.

Carved wood / steel / glass
Three arched display niches framed by an intricately carved wood screen built into a wall
Fig. 02carved niche screen. 2018

Built-in wardrobe

A walk-in wardrobe built floor to ceiling: a bank of drawers, open shelving, and full-height hanging in one continuous run. Planned as a single built-in so the proportions stay consistent around the whole room.

Maple plywood / bar pulls
Floor-to-ceiling built-in wardrobe with a bank of drawers, open shelving, and hanging sections in pale plywood
Fig. 03built-in wardrobe. 2010

Walnut sideboard

A walnut sideboard, three drawers over a pair of panelled doors, with turned bronze pulls. Solid stock and matched grain, sized to a specific wall — freestanding casework that reads as built-in.

Walnut / bronze
Low walnut sideboard with three top drawers, panelled cabinet doors, and round bronze pulls
Fig. 04walnut sideboard. 2019

Dining chairs

A set of four dining chairs in white oak — slatted backs, mortise-and-tenon frames — shown in the shop before finish. Built as a matched run so every joint and angle repeats exactly across all four.

White oak
Four matching slat-back dining chairs in pale oak, unfinished, standing in the workshop
Fig. 05chairs in the white. 2021

Pegged wine rack

A wall-mounted wine rack in walnut, bottles held on turned pegs against an arched back panel. A small feature piece that keeps the bottles on display without giving them a cabinet.

Walnut
Wall-mounted walnut wine rack holding six bottles horizontally on pegs against an arched back
Fig. 06pegged wine rack. 2022

Recessed shower niche

A recessed shower niche tiled to match the surrounding field, with mitered edges and one continuous shelf. This only lines up if the tile is planned before the wall is ever closed.

Ceramic tile
Recessed shower niche with a shelf, tiled in blue-gray stacked tile with mitered edges
Fig. 07recessed niche. 2025

Planter on steel

A waist-high planter box in cedar on a welded steel frame — joinery and metalwork in one piece, so there's no bending to garden. The steel carries the load; the cedar takes the weather.

Cedar / steel
Waist-high cedar planter box mounted on a welded tubular steel frame, outdoors on grass
Fig. 10planter on steel. 2021

Window band

A run of three black-framed windows set over a kitchen sink, trimmed and cased to sit flush with the wall so the frames read as one continuous band of glass.

Aluminum / glass
Three black-framed windows in a row above a kitchen sink, looking out onto a backyard tree
Fig. 11window band. 2025