Christopher Norman Projects LLC

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About Christopher Norman Projects LLC

Christopher Norman is a Los Angeles-based architect and artist creating formal objects for living.

Norman’s large-scale wooden artworks begin first as gestural drawings, and spontaneity and the hand are critical to his practice. Having worked with his hands his whole life, Norman doesn’t use computer-aided machinery, instead deploying industrial machines from the 1940s. With these devices, he is able to explore the connections between the body, plant-based materials, and industrial tools. Crafting from single segments of unglued wood weighing as much as 1,000 pounds, each sculptural element is a snapshot of the tree it came from. Rather than building forms, as one might in architecture or additive manufacture, Norman finds form in subtraction, cutting away matter to reveal a final shape which is discovered through the process. In the spirit of a circular economy that begins when working with arborists to source trees slated for removal, the cast-off wood goes to urban farmers located ...

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6023 Echo St

Los Angeles

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United States

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