About the Designers

Cecilia & Taylor

We are simply documenting a love story.

As architects we witnessed so many fight against nature to try and control or over-power her rather than listen and befriend her. Humans do this silly thing where they take matter in nature and simplify it to a degree in which they can understand (which often takes the form of a line or plane). No other creature needs this level of reduction or illusion of control. Orthogonal design can often be anxiety provoking; due to this we chose to focus on organic formal concepts that achieve a sense of freedom. As furniture makers, we listen to matter and allow our work to be wild. Our work began by documenting a love story, and studying the relationship between nature and man. We listen to raw materials and nurture them to bring a gentle piece of nature in to spaces. In return nature forms us as humans both physically and mentally. Each piece we make is an epic romance starring both matter and humankind balancing and taming one another.

I guess we're romantics.

A brief excerpt of our history.

Before we met; Taylor grew up in a small town in Alabama, he was brought up in a family of skilled woodworkers that make and restore church pews. Taylor began woodworking at the age of twelve, learning this skill from his grandfather. He worked almost every summer at the Rainsville Church Pew Co. furthering his skills and knowledge in making and craft.

Cecilia was born and raised in Miami, a first generation Cuban-American. She grew up among a family of architects. She had a passion for the fine arts from an early age and chose painting and drawing as her main form of expression. Growing up with architects in the family she began understanding concepts such as space, form, function, structure, and construction.

We met at Auburn University, both of us enrolled in the highly ranked five year architecture program. We attended the world renown design build program, Rural Studio, in our third year of school and that’s where we made our first furniture piece together. We graduated from Auburn in 2015 with a passion for making and a bachelors degree in architecture. From there we moved to Providence, Rhode Island for Cecilia’s graduate admission into the Rhode Island School of Design. Taylor continued to practice architecture in Providence where he completed his first built work, and focused primarily on construction management. Cecilia graduated from RISD in 2018 with a master of fine arts in furniture design. A few months after her graduation we decided to move to Los Angeles to start our business.

Somewhere in the middle of all that learning and betterment we had our first date, fell in love, got engaged, and eventually got married (just in case you were wondering). While our history and background reflect two highly motivated and capable individuals our true pride is in our present relationship both personally and professionally which is greatly reflected in our work.

We are Prince and Fox Studio.

The body of work we design enchants our audiences with meditative tactility and an immediate connection with nature. Inspired by Natural Circumstance and with an intuitive mentality our brand introduces a link between organic concepts and functional fine art. The outcome exists in the space between sculpture and furniture. With a freedom in form we design and make products of high quality. We create matter that matters by patiently learning materials and allowing others to see what is often invisible, but essential.

Making together since 2013