EMAIL : ryandonohoe@gmail.com

PHONE : 53 76 42 34

BIO

After growing up in sunny Southern California, I moved north to study architecture at UC Berkeley. By the end of architecture school, I was in love with the design process but I knew I needed to use my hands to make things rather than just draw buildings on the computer. In the summer of 2001, I took a furniture design class in Copenhagen... and also met the woman who would eventually be my wife. We moved to San Francisco so I could take a Master's Degree in furniture design where I focused on combining the craftsmanship of handmade studio furniture with the design principles of modernism.

From 2007 to 2023 I owned and operated a wood and metal fabrication studio in the US where I designed and built custom furniture for a wide range of clients, businesses, and architects. I opened the workshop in Los Angeles but eventually moved to Portland, Oregon in search of a reprieve from the traffic and heat of LA. I also taught a furniture design course through the Interior Architecture program at the University of Oregon.

My wife and I had our first daughter in 2019 right before the Covid lockdown. In 2022 we added identical twin girls to the family.  After enduring enough of the political turmoil in the US as well as the uncertainty of the pandemic it was clear that a change was needed. In the summer of 2023 we packed up everything and moved to Hillerød, Denmark. Our new house was designed and built by a "brickmaster" in the late 1970s and included a very large warehouse that I turned into my new workshop.

While in architecture school, I developed a profound respect for the clear logic and power of the early Modernists but overall, the work of mid-century Scandinavian designers has influenced me most. Like them, I focus heavily on craftsmanship and material selection without straying too far from Modern ideals concerning form and function. I create cabinetry and furniture that will withstand the test of time, both stylistically and structurally, while enriching the lives and environments of those who use it. I design and build for the individual.  

I am taking Danish classes but for now, I still communicate in English.

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