Artist Joshua Vogel focuses primarily on wood turnings, sculpture, and handmade furniture. Raised in New Mexico in the '70's, Joshua Vogel traveled extensively through Australia, Haiti, Europe & finally the American West, where he pursued Anthropology and Art History at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Architecture studies followed at the University of Oregon, where Vogel also began working in earnest with wood.

By the mid 90's Vogel had again relocated, this time to New York City where he worked to establish his first studio. Eventually focusing his expertise exclusively on furniture design & production, Joshua co-founded BDDW, a recognizable, heirloom quality, American made furniture & design company.

Hand-crafted from local woods includ­ing black walnut, sycamore, and maple, Vogel’s sculp­tures achieve a kind of Zen balance in their stacked forms, while his vessels often marry painstak­ing contours with natural splits in the grain. Wood is perhaps the most ancient mate­r­ial, but inno­va­tion remains possi­ble, as proven by the work of Joshua Vogel. Growing up in New Mexico in the 1970s offered lessons in the natural beauty of native trees; later, while explor­ing Australia, Haiti, and Europe, Vogel studied the vast variety of saplings and ancient trunks, each with their own unique grain and patina. 

Ultimately choosing the country lifestyle over that of the city, Joshua moved to the Hudson Valley to rediscover the basics; not only of life, but of design, woodworking & his first love - sculpture. Known to be meticulous and detail oriented, it is Vogel's indomitable energy to build, innate sense of larger design issues, and love of process that set him apart.