Joel grew up in Elgin, Illinois where his family owned a local lumber yard started by his grandfather, Harold. His sense of place is rooted in nature yet appreciates the importance of cultural influence urban environments  provide. Growing up 35 miles west of Chicago, Joel spent his youth running through cornfields and building tree forts in the woods. Family outings into the city would lay the aesthetic groundwork from early sightings of Midwest design icons such as Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ray & Charles Eames. Joel is a graduate of Pratt Institute ('13) with a degree in Industrial Design focusing on a special aesthetic sensibility in form-making in addition to a well rounded knowledge of production methods and materials. This helps produce a range of works in a myriad of materials while maintaining a clean and modern aesthetic.

Exhibitions + Acknowledgments + Press

2021 - Wanted Desgin Lookbook @ ICFF

2021 - Architectural Digest

2020 - Dwell 24

2020 - NYCxDESIGN awards, Honoree, Sconce category

2020 - NYCxDESIGN awards, Honoree, Best in Show

2020 - Vogue

2019 - Maison and Objet Rising Talent Award