Hello. I love making things. My favorite project that I’ve launched so far is a stool that rocks. Looking forward to the day that I can follow up this project with a wide array of new designs such as the Arch Stool Series.

I am married to Carey and sometimes make a youtube video when we travel. I love swimming and try to swim as often as I can. I also love running and designed a t-shirt for Harlem Run. I currently live in Baltimore, MD. Previously, I have lived in New York City, Nashville, Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, and Riyadh.

In college, I studied architecture where I learned about far more than just buildings. I loved courses on philosophy about how societies function as well as learning about the intricacies of materials, components, software, and especially automation/robotics. I love to learn new things through short online courses that range from superheroes to business innovation.

Instagram @jamesmcbennett

Some thought-provoking ideas that I’ve come across…..
Aalto Adjaye Anderson Ando Antonelli Arad Aristotle Augustine Baldessari Ban Bangle Baio Basho Bennett Bahjatt Barber Beynus Brand Brown(Brene) Brown(Tim) Campo-Baeza Camus Carter Confucius Cook Chen / Strickler Chipchase Chippendale Christakis Dash DeBotton Debord DeGeneres DeSmedt DeGeneres Dick Eames Enriquez Epicurus Fathy Ferguson Fisher Fried Fry Foster Fujimoto Fuller Gage Gibbons Gilbert Godin Gladwell Graham Hadid Harris Hartford Heatherwick Hegel Heidegger Herzog / DeMeuron Huang Hulme Ikenaga Ingels Ishii Ito(Joi) Ito(Toyo) Ive Jobs Jordan Katrantzou Kahn Kay Kelley Kelly Kidd Kierkegaard Kipnis Khan Klein(Josh) Klein(Ezra) Koolhaas Kuma Kushner Lai LaRochefoucauld Lessig Levete Lindkvist Lovegrove Lynn Mackintosh Maeda Mars Mayne McAfee McCandless McCraven McCullough McGrath McLuhan Medici Miner Mitchell Miyake Monteiro Montaigne Morris Moussavi MVRDV Namikama Nietzsche Niemeyer Negroponte Neuwirth Newson Ochsendorf Oliver O’Reilly Parkinson Pasquorelli Pausch Plato Pre-Raphaelites Prince-Ramus Random International Rams Reiser / Unemoto Ricard Ronson Rives Rikyu Ruskin Safdie Sagmeister / Walsh Sato Sempler Sennett Schwartz Smith Snohetta Shirky Silva Sinek Sivers Spinoza Sutherland Tehrani Thoreau Tzu Walters Warhol Warwick Wiscombe Williams Wittgenstein Venturi / Scott Brown Van Berkel Voltaire Zittrain