Posts Tagged ‘custom furniture masters in boston’
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…
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 MoreCasket overload
I’m getting bleary eyed. It is 9:30 pm in another hotel (I think it is outside of Oxford – yes, the Oxford of colleges, British humor and the Ashmolian Museum, where I’ll be tomorrow) and I have just finished looking at the last of the photos from the day. And am about to have a…
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 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…
Read MoreLouis Comfort Tiffany – Chairmaker
At the Winter Antiques Show in New York this weekend, I ran across this chair at the Hirschl&Adler Gallery booth. Made by Louis Comfort Tiffany (yes, the same guy who did all of those wonderful lamps) sometime around 1891-93, it is a sidechair, and H&A has a table that is also similar. So I…
Read MoreYes, 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!
Read MoreThe Spirit House
Twelve years ago when we went to Thailand, we noticed architectural-model-sized decorated houses at almost every residence. And hotel. And public building. But what are they, we wondered. They are Spirit Houses, and while we haven’t seen any around here in Boston, we were intrigued . A Spirit House is a shrine to the protective spirit…
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