Emotional resonance reigns supreme for this West Texas maker

Frequent moves were a hallmark of Marfa, Texas–based furniture designer and commercial fabricator Joey Benton’s childhood. The son of creatives—his father is a poet and his mother was a painter, sculptor and Montessori schoolteacher—he lived in 46 different homes across the United States, Canada and Mexico by the time he graduated from high school. The constant change of scenery sparked an early interest in design and architecture, and more specifically, built environments. “Growing up in this transient space made me long for a sense of home, but even that stays in a kind of maker’s dream state, because there is no tangible known version of what that is,” he tells Business of Home . “The creative process of site-specific design directly confronts that desire, but because it is for someon