Who’s Luz de Mano?

George’s creativity with design and quality craftsmanship reimagines the woodworker. His carpentry work, whether cabinets or doors, authenticates any space. The furniture he creates promotes the high value of purpose. With sculpture, George is extra free to express his awe for material with artistic instincts and mathematic ideas. In all ways woodworking, George’s pursuit of mastery is one of a kind. 

George has been handcrafting his art and enterprise for over ten years straight out of his home studio workshop in Pomona, California. The area’s art community, being surrounded by other artists pursuing their passions, has been an inspiring force in George’s journey and the source of many friendships. Just as meaningful to George, especially because of the singularity of his workshop and potential for dynamic collaborations, is his availability and service to the community. 

His other craft, prior to committing himself full time to woodwork, was teaching math. He sold students on the notion Geometry skills would make them all better artists and designers. Meanwhile during breaks in the school year, George experimented with design and practiced woodwork in the solitude of his home workshop. When George can mentor inspired apprentices, one of his highest personal goals, he will feel his callings to woodwork and community most fulfilled.

Today, George is simultaneously leveling up his home studio workspace for greater production and challenging his talents in some creative pursuits. This parallel tension between exerted efforts has pushed his creative priority for decades. A look around George’s folio here shows ultra versatile capabilities across various applications along with unique and effective solutions to complex challenges repeatedly. Whatever the next creative project opportunity, George embraces it as the next leap in his continuous quest.

(photo courtesy of Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, 2024)