Four years ago, Aaron Poritz had a chance encounter that would completely transform his creative process and business. The then-37-year-old designer, who studied architecture at California College of the Arts, had a wood shop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard where he created his own line of furniture as well as custom commissions. Walking through the “Yard” one evening on his way home, he passed a ground-floor studio with the garage-like door open revealing “a mad scientist-type guy surrounded by ten robots. I’d never seen anything like this, it was so crazy, and I walked in.” His life was forever changed. Read how, and see his other works, here.
