To the distinction between furniture and sculpture, Brooklyn's Luke Malaney pays little mind. Trained under a classical Roman woodworker, his scrupulous works serve as new models for old-world techniques. Traditional craft in uncharted waters. Likening his process to the rodeo, predictably unpredictable, each work is an act of discovery and the product of countless considerations. While functionality and endurance may be the only hard-and-fast rules of his methods for making, the result brings a pause. A kind of beauty that makes your head tilt. 

Malaney creates custom hardware for many of his own pieces, but his collection for Petra is his first to be offered on its own.