Modern furniture designer/maker Loyd Parker combines art and function. He uses the skills and insights gained from his training in sculpture, furniture making, and his study of modern art, design and furniture history to create his unique furniture.



Parker describes his design and building method as "Mid-Tech"; the use of traditional and innovative technology combined with a diverse material palette. He employs new and old, natural, man-made, salvage and found objects and a complete catalog of sustainable (green) products to create his imaginative furniture.

‘reBar’, for example, was fabricated using traditional methods and a CNC router (zig zag doors). The exterior is Vitricor, a back-painted, gold colored acrylic plastic with a frost design. The legs and pediment are salvaged rebar and crowned with a roughcast steel ball ( found by Parker himself) finished with metallic powder-coat.

With Parker's subtractive design process, all ideas (the good, the bad and the ugly) are considered and open for discussion. Then, by eliminating the unusable ideas, the design is refined. Parker takes delight in the juxtaposition of contrasting and dissimilar materials, producing unique, one-of-a-kind furniture pieces.

Parker finds that collaborating with his clients, designers, and other artists compliments the design process. A meeting of the minds helps to produce new ideas, open new doors, and keeps the innovative thinking process sharp and fresh.