Photography by Eric Heranval

Skate Study House seamlessly blends a passion for mid-century design, skateboard culture, and California lifestyle. Taking its name from the Case Study Houses built mostly in the Los Angeles area from 1945-1966, its furniture designs immediately bring to mind the work of Charles and Ray Eames. However these 21st-century pieces come with a catch: they’re made out of skate decks. Designed and handcrafted in California, Gil Le Bon De Lapointe and Pierre Andre Senizergues’s products use recycled and second hand products mixed with custom parts. Sometimes skate decks are stacked to form the base of a table, while other pieces use them as the planks in a chair; it’s amazing how utilitarian a wooden skate deck can be. Now with a showroom in both Newport Beach and LA’s Echo Park, the word has spread.