Jessie Nelson is a New York City–based furniture designer and fabricator whose work centers on material exploration, precise joinery and disciplined making. Grounded in hands-on experimentation, his practice investigates how materials behave, age and interact with their environment over time. Nelson’s informal design training began around 2010 through work on residential and commercial installations, shaping his sensitivity to material composition, scale and execution. In 2016, he debuted his Knuckle on Bone collection in the MADE section of the Architectural Digest Design Show in New York. His work has since been presented through galleries and design spaces in the United States. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Luxe and Creem magazine and is held in private collections internationally. Drawing from Brutalism, Bauhaus, utilitarian objects and Japanese woodworking, Nelson develops his projects through iterative experimentation, allowing form, finish and structure to evolve through making. Resisting trends, his work favors restraint, clarity and durability. The resulting objects exist between function and presence—designed for use, yet attentive to space, time and material integrity.
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