About

I like nice stuff. My favorite way to get it is by reviving tired pieces and making surroundings I actually want to live in — on my own terms.

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I make furniture under the name Bourge Responsibly. Say it like bouge — one syllable, rhymes with rouge, from the front of bourgeois. Bourge is bourgeois, made into a verb: furnishing your space with intention, beautifully and on your own terms. Responsibly is the how — I’d rather rescue and rework a piece worth saving than add another new thing to the world.

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My eye was formed in New Orleans, where I grew up — a city with one of the deepest furniture and interior traditions in the country. Creole craft. Victorian rooms. Parlors that hold beauty and a little darkness in the same breath. That’s where the sensibility comes from. It isn’t a costume. It’s a root.

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Here’s how the work goes: I find a piece worth saving — an estate sale, a shop, the side of the road — and I strip it back to see what’s there. Then I rework it into something one of one. Some of it runs a little macabre, a little irreverent; some of it doesn’t. What stays constant is the intention and the point of view.

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Every piece is made for a specific space. If you’re building a room around one, tell me about it — I want to understand what you’re after before I tell you what I can do.