A Chandelier for Cecily and Mike

December 23, 2011 — just barely in time for Christmas — I completed this cool chandelier for my daughter and son-in-law’s dining room table.

Coffee Table for Jen and Chad

My niece and nephew asked me to make a coffee table 24 x 24 inches and 14 inches high for their living room.  I think they really meant 24 x 36 inches, so I’m gonna have to make another it seems.  Still, there’s something wicked cool about this one — aluminum top and silver-gilded turned [...]

An Upholstered Bench with Eccentric Turned Legs

This month I built a bench for our living room.  It’s 18 inches high, 55 inches long, 19 inches deep and is the only upholstered furniture I’ve designed.  Linda and I picked out the fabric in advance and I intended my six legs to reflect the ovals design of the fabric. The six eccentric turnings [...]

Chandelier

360 individual castings assembled with 24 LED bulbs to make 48 x 18 inch chandelier:

A brief ‘break’ to make a table

Several months ago, I promised my daughter, Allegra (Leggie, Legs, Lulu), I’d make a dining table for her apartment in Boulder… As she’s coming home for Thanksgiving, my wife has insisted that I postpone additional work on the big press to complete Leggie’s table… Mark Sfirri and I were roommates while we were teaching at [...]

Lake Table and Ten Chairs of Ipe

This was a major project.  A large table and ten chairs for our home at Lake Lotawana.  The wood for the table base and chairs is all ipe (ironwood) which is extremely dense and heavy (it sinks in water).  The wood is unfinished and weathers very well, but I later had to beef up the [...]

Lennie Berkowitz Knock Apart Stool

Lennie Berkowitz, retired director of the Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, gave me an unusual commission — a kitchen stool for her Cabo San Lucas home which she could pack up in a suitcase and assemble herself in Mexico. So I made her a knock-apart stool, complete with detailed assembly instructions… This is one of my “typical” [...]

Cedar Stools

These four stools are made of well aged cedar, cut from a single rough construction beam. Each seat is reinforced with a pair of cedar inlays on the bottom with the grain running perpindicular to the seat itself. The joinery is all wedged through-tenons, with the mortises cut wider on the outside and the only [...]

Stools of Cocobolo and Curly Maple

I completed four of these stools in August of 2001. I think of them as “counting” stools. One, two, three, four… one: odd leg / top two: pairs of rails three: similar legs four: sides The parts are made for two complete stools — one of maple and the other of cocobolo, but the parts [...]

Two Stools maple and purple heart

These two stools, successors to the Torii Stool, were made as a pair for the 2001 Kansas City Art Institute fund-raising auction where they were sold for $2,250. I was very pleased. Wedged through tenon construction — very beautiful where the legs join the seat, I think. A pair of stools.25 inches high 11 inches square [...]

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