A floor lamp turned in the profile of a chess bishop, stretched to floor height in sassafras under an oil finish. The whole form is one continuous turning, base to head.
 
Aaron Getman-Pickering is a woodworker, designer, and artist working from his studio in Kingston, New York. Headed for law school after an internship in the Obama White House, he was pulled off course by a carpentry job, then spent years training with furniture makers and artists including Martin Puryear, Christopher Kurtz, and Kieran Kinsella. He draws on forms as varied as Danish pipes, East African headrests, architectural ornament, and industrial objects, building one of a kind lighting and furniture piece by piece.