The weekend was a blast! I will have the chair shot in the studio in a few weeks.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Easy Chair
Here is a picture from the Roberts Creek Arts Festival of my new Easy Chair taken by an amazing Ceramics artist named Kez Sherwood. The weekend was held at Robert Studer and Beth Hawthorn's This Is It studio, the most amazing place in the world!
The weekend was a blast! I will have the chair shot in the studio in a few weeks.
The weekend was a blast! I will have the chair shot in the studio in a few weeks.
Friday, May 4, 2012
VOTE NOW
Hello All,
My Pippa Desk made the top 10 in Dwell and Design Within Reach's Live work competition. The winner gets their piece manufactured by Design Within Reach. For those I am not friends with on Facebook, go and vote if you like it or any that you prefer. Thanks very much!
http://new.dwell.com/contests/live-work-design-contest/submissions/vote
My Pippa Desk made the top 10 in Dwell and Design Within Reach's Live work competition. The winner gets their piece manufactured by Design Within Reach. For those I am not friends with on Facebook, go and vote if you like it or any that you prefer. Thanks very much!
http://new.dwell.com/contests/live-work-design-contest/submissions/vote
Monday, April 16, 2012
Updates
I finished the DJ desk and shipped it off to Montreal. The whole package weighed 375 pounds! It was fun and the client was great.
I am wrapping up an order for more corded benches and have another custom desk order on the roster.
And I will have 2 new completed pieces to show at an upcoming show at the end of next month. They are being upholstered as I type this.
I am also putting together a website and will be moving this blog over to it. I will post the info here when that happens.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
DJ Desk
The desk is glued up and awaiting its oil finish.
The Corian looks great and works incredibly. The downside is it is like working with dry wall and leaves horrible dust all over your shop and in your lungs and pores.
The Corian looks great and works incredibly. The downside is it is like working with dry wall and leaves horrible dust all over your shop and in your lungs and pores.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Chair
Wow things are slow in blog land. Here is what I have been up to in the shop.
I made a simple chair with some walnut scraps the other week. It is the type of chair I wanted to make when I first got into furniture making. It is funny as it has taken me this long how to figure out how to make one! I kid you not. I set myself a challenge to make it 2 days, and did it in 3. It is more complicated than what people expect. If you do not believe me, try making one and let me know how it goes.
I shaped the shoulders of the stretchers instead of housing the joints as I have in the past. This was by far the hardest part of the build. The joints are off 90 degrees and there are three separate angles on the back legs.
It will be upholstered in leather on a plywood seat and back rest. It has joined my list of pieces sitting around my house waiting to be upholstered and photographed when I have an extra $2000 laying around. Think I am at about four now!
Its influence and pedigree are obvious, nothing original. These were shapes I needed to explore. For some reason woodworkers do not like spindles, well very few do. I do not know if it is because they associate it with production furniture or what it is. I do know that flat parts are much easier to work with. It seems to me most wood workers use the same recycled shapes over and over again, not just in their own work but as a group, I myself am included in that group and am guilty of this. I have nothing against these shapes as they look great but personally my eye is attracted to variety. A flat member coming into a cylindrical one can be very interesting. I need to go back and explore more of these forms to expand my design vocabulary.
I am also hard at work on that walnut desk. It turns out the client's gear took up less space than we anticipated so it got slimmed out. I was very happy with this change. The top is being done in Corian, "the material of the future" as my friend Federico calls it. It is pretty amazing stuff.
I made a simple chair with some walnut scraps the other week. It is the type of chair I wanted to make when I first got into furniture making. It is funny as it has taken me this long how to figure out how to make one! I kid you not. I set myself a challenge to make it 2 days, and did it in 3. It is more complicated than what people expect. If you do not believe me, try making one and let me know how it goes.
I shaped the shoulders of the stretchers instead of housing the joints as I have in the past. This was by far the hardest part of the build. The joints are off 90 degrees and there are three separate angles on the back legs.
It will be upholstered in leather on a plywood seat and back rest. It has joined my list of pieces sitting around my house waiting to be upholstered and photographed when I have an extra $2000 laying around. Think I am at about four now!
Its influence and pedigree are obvious, nothing original. These were shapes I needed to explore. For some reason woodworkers do not like spindles, well very few do. I do not know if it is because they associate it with production furniture or what it is. I do know that flat parts are much easier to work with. It seems to me most wood workers use the same recycled shapes over and over again, not just in their own work but as a group, I myself am included in that group and am guilty of this. I have nothing against these shapes as they look great but personally my eye is attracted to variety. A flat member coming into a cylindrical one can be very interesting. I need to go back and explore more of these forms to expand my design vocabulary.
I am also hard at work on that walnut desk. It turns out the client's gear took up less space than we anticipated so it got slimmed out. I was very happy with this change. The top is being done in Corian, "the material of the future" as my friend Federico calls it. It is pretty amazing stuff.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
New Projects
I am at work on a commissioned desk and a sideboard. Here is the desk.
It is based on another well known desk design but made to double as a place for the client's DJ gear. This is where I step in. The desk's top slides out revealing the contents within. The client is an artist as well so it was fun to work through the design process together. We both would have liked to see it a little less thick but function always comes first.
The sideboard post will come soon, I have been playing with too many ideas for a week now and ultimately am coming back to what I started with! So classic me. Got to explore all options and make sure.
In other news, my shop is mess. I should go clean it.
It is based on another well known desk design but made to double as a place for the client's DJ gear. This is where I step in. The desk's top slides out revealing the contents within. The client is an artist as well so it was fun to work through the design process together. We both would have liked to see it a little less thick but function always comes first.
The sideboard post will come soon, I have been playing with too many ideas for a week now and ultimately am coming back to what I started with! So classic me. Got to explore all options and make sure.
In other news, my shop is mess. I should go clean it.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Current Work
Another Danish Cord Bench order is underway. Here are some pictures of the progress. There is no way around it, these things take time to build.
It has been really nice being in the shop. I feel really fortunate to be inside, warm and doing work I love doing.
It has been really nice being in the shop. I feel really fortunate to be inside, warm and doing work I love doing.
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