Boston Design Week and AD-20/21

Just a heads up that Boston Design Week is coming to a close, and the Fort Point Cabinetmakers are having our work showcased at the AD 20/21 show at the Cyclorama in Boston. We have many pieces of our work on display, some just out of the finishing room! Join us if you have some…

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Finishing the Desk Gallery

While I don’t write often, this desk gallery is something that I had to share – it is difficult, tough to design, and the execution is like completing a freeform jigsaw puzzle.  The design and first mockup only gets you so far.  Then you have to make it.  For real.  In hardwood.  With sharp tools.…

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Desk Galleries

  The buildout of a gallery for a fall front desk is like building an entirely new piece of furniture inside the piece you are making.  It takes a lot of thought and a great deal of craftsmanship to make the design sing, and a long time to execute the final design. A desk gallery stands…

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A New Beginning

Fort Point Cabinetmakers, where I have been a Managing Partner for the last 9 years, is moving. There are eight of us, all traveling on slightly different paths, but coalescing in a supportive group of furniture makers working together to keep the craft alive and vibrant. Here is where we would normally get into the…

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The Ultimate in Bog Oak trees

Earlier in the week we heard about the woman who discovered a 10,000 year old forest – underwater – about 300 yards off the north Norfolk coast of England.  She was out for a morning dive and came across the trees lying in 20 feet of water, probably uncovered in a big storm the year…

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Yes, that is our table in back of the new Cabinet Members!

Honored to swear in our new cabinet. Ready to get to work with a great team! pic.twitter.com/CDH7G8UlzJ — Charlie Baker (@MassGovernor) January 8, 2015 This was posted by the new Massachusetts Governor, Charlie Baker.  And just behind the new cabinet members is our new oval table!  Nice to see it getting some exposure!  

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HH Richardson table? Maybe… (part 1)

When the call came, it was in the form of a definitive attribution.  “The table was made by HH Richardson and we need to repair it, and then make a duplicate.”  It is the oval table in the foreground of this 1897 photo of the library. Henry Hobson Richardson was the architect who won the…

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New Furniture Exhibition at Historic Deerfield

If you’re thinking about commissioning a piece of furniture and want some inspiration, I definitely recommend paying a visit to the Flynt Center in Deerfield, Massachusetts. I’ve talked a lot on my design blog about how Massachusetts and the New England region played an important role in early American furniture design. The Flynt Center is…

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