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Architectural Marquetry
Solo project
2025
Upstairs Door
Designed and built by
Hugo Nakashima-Brown
This architectural door panel was made for a client's home in Austin, TX built on a former brownfield above the Colorado River.
Inspired by the “edgeland” landscape surrounding the home and the architecture of the library/guest house where they are installed, the designs, taken from client Christopher Brown's photography in the floodplain, explore ecological paradise in a light industrial brownfield.
This liminal "edgeland" space between urban and rural is a habitat not just for wildlife but those living out of governed societal systems.
Fabricating and laminating marquetry at this scale posed some real technical challenges, not only because of accuracy of cutting, but of shrinkage factor when introducing water during the glue up.