Modern Metal

Modern Metal Modern Metal designs and manufactures modern laser-cut metal architectural grilles and panels

Our cabinet inserts want to be in your next kitchen project. ⁠⁠These ones are in our Square Squared pattern.
06/02/2026

Our cabinet inserts want to be in your next kitchen project. ⁠
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These ones are in our Square Squared pattern.

06/02/2026

The Annie stamp of approval.

Reimagining our Gridlock pattern.
06/01/2026

Reimagining our Gridlock pattern.

06/01/2026

Pov: you’re a fly on the wall while I’m designing a custom pattern

05/30/2026

Simple Bend at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in New York City.

Chicken luxury. ⁠⁠Made from upcycled metal panels.
05/29/2026

Chicken luxury. ⁠
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Made from upcycled metal panels.

This Berkeley backyard project was designed around movement, light, and water.⁠⁠The homeowner, Susan, is an avid swimmer...
05/28/2026

This Berkeley backyard project was designed around movement, light, and water.⁠
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The homeowner, Susan, is an avid swimmer, and for her 65th birthday she asked for a completely new backyard. I was honored to be commissioned to create a custom pattern for a series of privacy screens that would bring beauty and tranquility to the space while obscuring the area behind it.⁠
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The panels are suspended and illuminated with flood lights from the front, so in the evening they completely transform. The light catches the cut metal and casts shifting shadows across the yard, almost like reflections on water.⁠
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From the beginning, I wanted the design to capture Susan's spirit and the feeling she described experiencing in the water: movement, calm, rhythm, and light. I spent time studying the surface of the pool, but also the experience of being underneath it, looking upward at the light as it moved through the water. I was fascinated by the way ripples distort and soften the light, constantly shifting and changing. Translating that liquidity into metal was surprisingly difficult. Sometimes it's hard to capture a feeling graphically, especially something as fluid and ever-changing as water.⁠
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Even now when I swim, I still catch myself watching the movement of the water and the way light dances across the surface from below. It's mesmerizing every time.⁠
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Knowing Susan and her family get to enjoy these panels every day brings me a great deal of happiness.

The power of paint to match.
05/27/2026

The power of paint to match.

Address

Oakland, CA

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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(510) 516-7713

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