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Abbaszadeh Pendant Lamps

A series of eight steel, aluminum and glass pendant lamps. The minimal design was achieved using folded black anodized aluminum plate, cradled within an etched slumped glass shell. A milled steel horizontal bar links these elements and the light bulb to the steel pipe used to conceal electrical wires and mount to the ceiling.

Design: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, DDF (construction and detailing)

Fabrication: DDF

Glass: Lenehan Architectural Glass

de Latour Breakfast Table

Tri-legged stainless steel base and support for white oak table top. Stainless steel reveal through surface of wood.

Design: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Fabrication: DDF (metal), Berkeley Mills (wood)

Sabin Bedroom

The Sabin Bedroom set features a mix of linear and curved profiles. Rich, textural cocobolo wood contrasts with mirror-polished stainless steel tube legs.

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

BAR Architects Shelf

Lasercut cold roll steel plate shelf for BAR Architects lobby. The 11'-6" assembly is almost entirely mechanically fastened on site to allow for ease of transport and installation to the 3rd floor office. Counterbored low head socket cap screws fasten to tapped holes in the plate edges at each joint. The shelf secures to the wall via narrow brackets hidden above and below eye level.

 

Design : BAR Architects

Fabrication: DDF

Installation: DDF

Tien Terrace Furniture

The Tien Furniture set includes bench seat, end table, planters and plant stand. Made of powder coated perforated steel sheet and forged and milled steel flat bar, these rugged but elegant pieces are attractive and industrious.

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Kahai Table

Cold rolled mild steel flat bar table frame. Carrera marble notched at two locations for flat bar embed flush with tabletop. 

Design: broadbearArch

Fabrication : DDF (steel), Fox Marble (marble)

Probst Shelf

This piece is a meticulous assembly of folded and lasercut stainless steel sheet with hidden structural ribs and holes for mounting. The result is a floating shelf with a quiet and modern profile.

Design: K. Probst, DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Abbaszadeh Dining Table

Hot rolled mild steel plate with black patina, laminated low iron glass, block rubber, and grade 8 flat head machine screws comprise this six and a half by 14 foot dining table.

Design:  Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, DDF (construction and detail design)

Fabrication:  DDF 

Reiser Nightstands

The Reiser Nightstands are a marriage of custom groove-patterned and delicately patinated 1/4" bronze plate and blackened steel plate. The carefully composed boxes offer an open storage space within, and hover above a delicate steel solid bar frame with turned conical delrin feet.
 

Find the Interiors magazine article featuring these pieces HERE.

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Kahai Benches

Two custom designed and built benches to couple with the previously fabricated cold rolled steel flat bar table base. Cold rolled steel with brass accent.

 

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Probst Bedroom

The Probst Bedroom set includes grained stainless steel bed frame, nightstand and dresser frames, and full-length mirror--all meticulously detailed with countersunk hardware and concealed welds. 

Design: K. Probst, DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Wood: Pacasa Studio

Sabin Lamps

These similar sculptural forms hold a strip of LED lights at thier ends, to double as functional lamps. They are each composed of milled, blackened and automotive-painted base, bent cold roll round tube neck, and a custom dimmer knob control module.

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Abbaszadeh Desks

This solid walnut desk top hovers on painted backbone of laser cut plate ribs welded to a double-extra-strong steel pipe spine, with the spine ends embedded in the walls. Adjustable wire slots on either side of the work surface serve as a functional organizational detail.

A second desk has a 1/4" grained and polished stainless steel top.

Design: Cherie Lau Design, DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Wood: Norodd Wellman

Installation: DDF

Podell Chair

DDF produced this single-run chair prototype out of waterjet cut, anodized aluminum.

Design: Leslie Podell, DDF (detail design)

Fabrication : DDF

Willis Table

Willis Table features a drop-leaf mahogany tabletop with aluminum bronze leg frame. The aluminum flat bar reveals itself through a 90 year old mahogany top and leaves, freshly milled for this use. The table top is complimented by custom silicon bronze hinges and retractable leaf supports below.

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Reiser Table

Custom groove-patterned and delicately patinated 1/4" bronze plate tabletop sits lightly atop a blackened steel flat bar frame. 

Find the Interiors magazine article featuring this table HERE.

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

De Latour Dining Table

The de Latour Dining table is a light assembly of stainless steel flat bar connected by counterbored low head fasteners. A single piece of 3/4" tempered glass is held on top.

Design: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Fabrication: DDF

Malka Vanity + Bath

A bathroom vanity and fixture grouping of stainless sheet, round bar and plate, automotive paint, sealed poplar and wood casework. 

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Installation: DDF

Wilkinson Tables

Two hot rolled steel and stained white oak tables mounted on rolling casters. Custom drawers and shelf storage rest beneath an oversized tabletop.

Design: Kendall Wilkinson Design, DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Sabin Turntable Plate

This shelf was fabricated specifically as a home for the client's turntable. The cocobolo and satin stainless steel finishes coordinate with the material palette carried throughout the apartment. The shelf cantilevers 18" off the wall, utilizing two sizable concealed rods for support.

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Sabin Stainless Steel Fixtures

A series of varied stainless steel products for a favorite residential client: pot rack and hooks, light switches, chair mat, kitchen shelf, coat hooks.  Utilizing laser cutting, forming, welding, milling, forging.

Design: DDF

Fabrication, Installation: DDF

Malka Credenza

1/2" glass, hot roll and cold roll steel, milled glass tabs, sealed poplar.

Design, Fabrication: DDF 

Mountain Goat Table

White powder coated hairpin legs attach to the tabletop support at a slight cant, mimicking the perched stance of a mountain goat.

Design: Bridget Basham, DDF

Metal: DDF

Wood: Bridget Basham 

Cookston Kitchen Island

A sliding cantilevered countertop, the 3" deep quartz conceals a custom steel rail & roller bearing structure which allows the top to slide from side to side with minimal noise and effort. Soft positive brakes cushion the travel at end positions. Structural steel frame embedded in lower casework to support the additional weight and movement.

Design: Colleen Wittman, Scott Newland, DDF

Fabrication, Installation: DDF

Sabin Murphy Counter

A stainless steel drop-leaf counter.  With a custom support arm and hinge, it easily stows away when not in use. 

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Installation: DDF

Carola Desk

Our client needed a unique desk for her home office, while not seeing her 50 year old round German wood table just go to the landfill.  We utilized the table to create a rectilinear storage level under the 3/8" plate steel top on the modern desk we created for her.

Commercial Street Shelves, Casework & Fireplace

Custom mahogany, mild steel and marble help finish out a total renovation of an historic Chinatown 3-story residence in San Francisco.

Design: DDF, client concept

Fabrication, Installation: DDF

Stone: Fox Marble

Wood: MWDB

GFDS Conference Table

The GFDS Conference Table showcases a sleek intersecting stainless steel frame beneath a simple low-iron glass tabletop.

Design: GFDS Engineering + Product Design

Fabrication: DDF

WorkClub Table

In fabricating the WorkClub table, DDF repurposed six table legs previously fabricated for the client's bar. The blackened hot rolled angle legs were retrofitted with leveling feet. A formed hot rolled sheetmetal top provides ample surface area for the patrons of the WorkClub internet cafe.

Design: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Woodslab Hanger

Tritz Media Console

Tempered glass, hot and cold roll steel, Plyboo, glass, custom fold-down door/shelf mechanism.

Concept: Max Tritz III

Design, Fabrication: Henry DeFauw

Stern-Rizga Shelving

A commission by Mike Stern and Kristina Rizga to make the best studio use of an unusually-shaped room in a San Francisco Victorian.  Utilizing galvaloom sheetmetal, reclaimed clear cedar, and hot roll steel, these built-in units complemented the space and their aesthetic without reducing a sense of ample space.

Concept: Stern, Rizga

Design: DDF

Fabrication, Installation: DDF

Wood: DDF

Devon Chrome Table

Chrome plated mild steel bar-height kitchen table base of 1/4" mild steel plate.

Design, Engineering: DDF

Fabrication: DDF

Wood top by others 

Abbaszadeh Pendant Lamps

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de Latour Breakfast Table

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Sabin Bedroom

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BAR Architects Shelf

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Tien Terrace Furniture

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Kahai Table

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Probst Shelf

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Abbaszadeh Dining Table

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Reiser Nightstands

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Kahai Benches

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Probst Bedroom

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Sabin Lamps

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Abbaszadeh Desks

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Podell Chair

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Willis Table

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Reiser Table

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De Latour Dining Table

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Malka Vanity + Bath

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Wilkinson Tables

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Sabin Turntable Plate

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Sabin Stainless Steel Fixtures

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Malka Credenza

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Mountain Goat Table

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Cookston Kitchen Island

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Sabin Murphy Counter

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Carola Desk

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Commercial Street Shelves, Casework & Fireplace

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GFDS Conference Table

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WorkClub Table

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Woodslab Hanger

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Tritz Media Console

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Stern-Rizga Shelving

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Devon Chrome Table

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