Material Explorations
What the work
is becoming.
Every practice has a research layer — the ideas being tested before they're ready, the materials being pushed further than the current collection goes. This is ours.
These explorations sit outside the standard TFM range. They are studies in what becomes possible when the same hardware-free, tool-free philosophy meets different materials, different cultural references and different design pressures. All of them are informing what comes next.
These are concepts. They are shown as an invitation into the research and thinking that shapes the practice. If a particular direction interests you, we welcome the conversation.
Marble & Brass
The TFM Club Chair frame — unchanged — paired with marble panels and brass accents. A study in what happens when the same structural discipline meets materials with more explicit cultural weight. The geometry holds. The atmosphere shifts entirely. Solid wood and stone in conversation rather than competition.
Marble & Brass at Scale
The same material direction composed as a full environment. Multiple chairs, the same marble and brass language extended across the space. This is the question the exploration is really asking: does a materially elevated version of the system hold its coherence when it fills a room? The answer here is yes.
Pyramid Relief Panels
Hand-laid pyramid-relief panels set into the same solid wood frame — a technique rooted in old-world door-making traditions brought into a clean geometric form. Pattern as material rather than decoration. Something you'd want to run your hand across.
Pyramid Relief at Scale
The pyramid-relief direction as a composed interior environment. The repetition of the pattern across multiple pieces creates a rhythm that a single chair alone doesn't reveal — an architectural quality that emerges only when the system is seen in full. This is what the exploration is building toward.
Resin River Inlay
A resin river inlay running through solid wood — fluid, water-like geometry cast permanently into the form. The contrast between the controlled precision of the frame and the apparent movement of the resin is the tension the study is exploring. Structure and fluidity. The TFM discipline meeting something that refuses to be disciplined.
Resin River at Scale
The resin river direction in daylight, composed as a full outdoor environment. What was an intimate material detail at the single-chair scale becomes something else entirely in open air — the light moving through the resin differently across the day, the organic lines of the inlay reading against the geometry of the surrounding space.
If a direction here
interests you —
If something here speaks to a project you're working on, we'd welcome the conversation. Custom work is considered on a limited basis and always begins with a direct discussion.