Marcus Soto

Marcus Soto has spent his working life in woodworking shops, eventually finding his way to his current positions as design and production partner at New York Heartwoods, a Kingston, N.Y.-based company that creates furniture and retail displays from fallen and urban trees, and as the owner of Sojen Design, a custom furniture company. Asked to describe why woodworking holds such an attraction for him, Soto says “I am not certain; the one thing I know for sure is that I could not imagine doing anything else.”