Madey is the artist studio of Rachel Yedam Park — handcrafted objects and furniture made in San Francisco.
Yedam Park grew up in Korea with a pencil always in her hand. She drew constantly: characters, objects, little worlds on the edges of notebooks. From pretty early on she wanted to make things that could actually exist, not just live on paper. That feeling followed her to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where she studied storytelling and started to understand that objects could carry the same emotional weight as any film or drawing.
After USC she worked in animation and then in software product design. Both fields are obsessed with the same things: how something looks, how it feels to use, whether it respects the person holding it. She loved that work. But she kept thinking about the physical. Something you could set on a shelf and come back to. Something that didn't need a screen.
Woodworking gave her that. Based in San Francisco, she works primarily in walnut and maple, drawn to how different they are sitting next to each other. She also hates waste. Scraps from one project become the starting point for the next. Offcuts get repurposed, leftovers get turned into something new. Every piece of wood gets a full life before it's done.
No two pieces will ever be the same. The grain moves, the color shifts, the lathe responds differently every time. She tries to get out of the way and let the wood decide. The goal is always something that feels less like it was designed and more like it was found: quiet, a little unexpected, completely at home wherever it lands.
What matters most to her is the sharing. She loves teaching, talking through ideas, collaborating with people who care about the same things. The work is meant to be used, given away, kept for a long time. If you have something in mind, she'd genuinely love to hear it.