Posts Tagged ‘cabinetmakers in boston ma’
Annual Event – Currier Museum – Manchester NH – Sept 22nd
Every year the Furniture Masters have a big gala party – this year we are in Manchester at the Currier Museum, which has a fabulous collection of White Mountains art (think Cole and Bierstadt) as well as a contemporary side that stands up well to many larger, more well known museums. How about a photo of…
Read MoreAfter a long absence, Sept 7th open event @ NHIA
I know, it has been a good year since I posted, and I have been meaning to get back, but life has intervened. Indeed, the unfolding dramas in Washington DC have taken up much more of my time and attention than I would have liked, but that aside, I want to invite all of my…
Read MoreDutch Design Week – Student Work
The Dutch Design Academy graduated 171 students this year, and one of the perks is that they get to exhibit their senior project at Design Week. With 250,000 attendees (DDW’s figures), this is a powerful draw to keep students in the area through the end of October. I talked with one student who had graduated…
Read MoreAt the end of the project…
There is always an end of the project, where the piece is finished, or as finished as it is ever going to be. It reminds me of the polisher in the Steinway piano factory. When the tour group came through, one person asked him – “How do you know when it is finished?” to which…
Read MoreThe Makers Guild at the IDB
Over the past few months, we have moved into our new space in the Makers Guild section of the Innovation and Design Building here in South Boston. While we moved in a couple of months ago, it is only just becoming comfortable and easy to work in. Every shop takes on an aura of “home”…
Read MoreThomas Jefferson’s chairs
This chair was probably made at Monticello – by Thomas Jefferson’s joiner and slave, John Hemings. Whether TJ himself ever sat on it is up for discussion. In the collection of Colonial Williamsburg, it is an example of a chair with less finesse than those made in large urban centers, but with a bit more…
Read MoreInvitation: Makers and Making, and the opening of our new shop
Yes, we have finished our move, and are ready to start making again! Join us March 27th from 6:15 to 8:30 and see the new space. But you have to register with Eventbrite by clicking here, because of the crowd we are expecting. Miguel Gomez-Ibanez, President of the North Bennet Street School and I will…
Read MoreDesign by Hand and Eye
I usually don’t get involved with little snippets of things, but every once in a while something comes across the bench that shows significant creativity and an understanding of a more complex topic. This happens to be one. A great stop-motion short about designing a footstool using Leonardo’s concepts embodied in Vitruvian Man, which he…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe Creative Process…
It has been almost 15 years since I started making furniture seriously, and over that time I have tried to hew to one particular mantra – to make only beautiful, useful furniture. And sure enough, over the course of time I have made hundreds of pieces, and each time I vow to make the next…
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