timberworks is a design studio and placemaking practice based in Northern California. The studio works at the intersection of ecological thinking and material craft — producing furniture, objects, and installation in wood, and taking on design projects that ask how the built environment might be more alive, more particular, and more deeply connected to the landscapes that surround it.

The studio was founded by timber, a designer and craftsperson whose work spans three decades and multiple disciplines. Trained first as a landscape architect at UC Berkeley and later as a fine woodworker at the Krenov School under Laura Mays, timber brings a systems thinker's eye to the scale of the hand — and a maker's sensibility to questions of land, place, and ecological design.

Earlier work includes co-founding FEED Sonoma, a farmer-driven regional produce distribution network conceived as a landscape design strategy for western Sonoma County — an effort to provide the economic infrastructure that sustains the patchwork of small farms that makes this place so particular. Before that: biodynamic farming, a kibbutz in the Negev desert, studies with Vandana Shiva and Edward Goldsmith, professional practice at Tom Leader Studio and AECOM. The thread running through all of it is the same — a belief that how we shape the world around us shapes us in return. That a humble, hand-held object, like a good meal made from simple ingredients, can be the best medicine for body and soul.