The current issue of American Bungalow features some windows I made for Lynne and Audel Davis of Berkeley, California. Audel is a copperworker whose work I’ve admired for years. Like me, he’s interested in creating his own designs rather than reproducing work from the past. A while back we started talking about a trade; they wanted a pair of my windows around their fireplace and I needed a set of Audel’s Libery-inspired candlesticks.

Audel made these ceiling lanterns with glass from the now defunct Chicago Art Glass, who made the translucent amber glass I used in the windows. You can see a close up of the window here in the bottom right corner.

He’s converted his garage into a workshop where he creates his lighting from flat sheets of copper.

These are a few of the hammered copper lights he’s created over the years. For more on Audel’s approach to craft and design, click here to read his conversation with Roger Moss.