PROJECT DETAILS Before I decided to do full size woodworking, I built many models. This one is of a brigantine and uses what is called “plank on frame construction”. It is built exactly like the original ship and even uses small (#66 drill size) dowels to secure each plank to its frame. This model took […]
PROJECT DETAILS Riomaggorio chair and New York Public Library Bookcase This is a chair designed from the lovely seacoast town of Riomaggorio. The houses wrap around the harbor and the street ascends up a canyon. Dyed popular and chestnut 32”x42”x48” The bookcase, made for the same client is to house a 24-volume Oxford dictionary and […]
PROJECT DETAILS This is part of the series of art chairs built as Italian hill towns. Postigano is an ancient village in central Italy that was abandoned because of earthquakes. The village is built around an old castle and the church is still standing the central square has been enlarged to make the seat. — […]
PROJECT DETAILS This was the first of several chairs built in collaboration by myself and another artist Vickie Cypherd. These chairs play with the fragility of the California landscape. The construction of these chairs was adapted from a Swiss two-board chair that was capable of being taken apart for transportation. In this version of […]
PROJECT DETAILS In this version of the chair everything is coming apart and the chair is non functional. In this type of furniture, I like to try and capture the instant of time when an event or sudden change is taking place. For: example: a building starting to fall, a piano coming out or […]
August 12, 2017 |
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