Los Angeles-based designer Julie Jackson founded Surcle in 2015 to bring the beauty of the natural world into the home. After nearly a lifetime spent outdoors, running competitively across wooded trails, mountains, and cities, Jackson translates the intimate perspective she captures on her two feet into finely crafted wood furnishings and lighting. The meditative act of putting foot to ground mirrors the tactile experience of handcrafting wood on the lathe. Both rhythmic and cyclical, these disparate practices inform each other and reinforce Jackson’s organic connection with nature. As a result, her woodwork pieces bring an untamed texture to her soft, sculptural lathe-crafted shapes.

Jackson made her first lamp more than a decade ago and has since designed lighting for commercial spaces like Soho House Portland, Soho House Holloway, Hilton Waikoloa Village Ali’i Tower, The Driftway in Philadelphia, PA, and other residential projects.