acrylic on panel, mounted printed patent on high quality acrylic panel
This is California design distilled down to its most elegant idea.
At first glance, it reads minimalist and architectural—but then you realize you’re standing in front of a moment in surf history. A 1967 asymmetric surfboard patent is rendered in precise white linework, suspended over a moody, painterly field of coastal color. The palette is restrained and confident: warm amber, stormy slate, and soft Pacific dusk tones that feel simultaneously vintage and very now.
What makes this work special is its intelligence. It’s not about waves crashing or surfers riding—it’s about thinking about surfing. Innovation. Experimentation. The moment when California stopped following tradition and started inventing its own future.
In an LA interior, this piece is devastatingly effective. It anchors a room without overpowering it. It looks at home above a walnut console in Brentwood, in a Santa Monica office, or in a Malibu house where taste leans quiet but exacting. It pairs beautifully with modern furniture, mid-century forms, and collectors who value concept as much as aesthetics.
This isn’t surf décor.
It’s surf design culture.A piece for someone who appreciates restraint, history, and the subtle confidence of owning something most people don’t even realize they’re looking at—until they can’t stop.
