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Michael Moran

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Michael Moran was born in Kentucky and lived in Tennessee and Wisconsin in his younger years. He settled in Charleston in the late 90’s and apprenticed under a local furniture maker before opening his own shop in 2004.

He grew up close to trees and after considering their many attributes, feels it is a privilege to eat on the cross-section of a tree or to store things in a case of its body. His vision of furniture is one in which neither the design nor the materials aesthetically outweigh each other. His intention is to create pieces in which the simplicity of the design and the natural beauty of the wood command notice simultaneously and are intimately related. He is interested in the interaction of the natural and the man-made worlds. He works to discover where these worlds intersect and how they can complement and balance each other. He is also interested in the balance between form and function and where on that scale each piece he builds lies.

His central belief that drives his work is that each piece of wood has its own specific place.