Tom Kundig is internationally celebrated. An artist, inventor and philosopher assimilated, Tom’s bias is to nature and the nature of materials—how things are made and how they come together. On the outside, Tom’s passion for nature translates easily into his preference for honest, simple materials. On the inside, Tom’s wit and cleverness lend refreshing distinction to his work.

A graduate of the University of Washington, Seattle boasts Tom as one of its own. And, like his structures, Tom slips easily into the community. He sits as a juror on design panels. He lectures and instructs during visiting professorships, and he lends support to the creative community as a board member of On the Boards Theater. Tom thrives on client interaction: he listens, he appreciates, and he responds. For Tom, the client drives the project. “It’s what I do this stuff for: to be involved with a landscape, and with these personalities. Somebody pinch me.”

Tom combines architecture with his other trademark affinity, invention. For the warehouse transformation of the Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen office, Tom invented a 3-ton, 15-foot by 25-foot glass-paned steel door skylight powered by only city water pressure and controlled by a blackened aluminum apparatus a toddler could turn. As the expansive roof section lifts, fresh air and sunlight pour into the three-story space. For Eleven Eleven Tom brings shifting puzzle doors to shape your interior spaces. He introduces the Urban RV, a Tom Kundig original, to roam your space and transform at your whim into a coffee table, a kitchen island, or a desk. More than works of art, Tom’s designs are working art.

In each design, Tom crafts a framework allowing his clients’ style and character to transform the space from his vision to their home. Tom’s projects are designed to evolve. Every new project draws upon past projects; they are all intertwined, yet at the same time, unrestrained by convention and conformity. Tom’s progressive edge defies a mold and allows each project to come into its own.

To see images of Tom’s other work go to the Tom Kundig Gallery.