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 Anderson [...]

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” curved [...]

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 are switched or shared in [...]

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 sculpted seats
hand [...]

Child’s Rocking Chair

Child’s Rocking Chair, Christmastime 2000, cherry seat and back with padauk inlay, birch and padauk laminated runners, amphormosa frame, shellac and wax finish.
I built and finished this rocker in about eight hours from scraps I had on hand. There was no preliminary design, I just built it to fit my eight month old friend, Lily Oliver. She [...]

Max’s Stool

My son, Max, and I made this stool with it’s large turned seat. It belongs to Max and sits in his room. He and I turned the seat and legs as we learned how to use my new lathe. It was very fun. Max did most of the finishing, and we both think it’s kinda cool.

Stool
20 inches high
turned seat [...]

UMB Zen Garden Meeting Room design and construction

I was commissioned to design a meeting room at UMB Technology Center (UMB is a major regional bank). UMB named the room ‘Zen Garden’, and I’m told it’s the most popular place in the building. I made (with my own hands) everything in them room, including a table with six chairs, two large benches, two ceiling elements, [...]

Hand Print Stool

This stool has cherry legs and a birch wood seats. I was tired of sanding, had made some ugly stretchers, and didn’t like the leg orientation, so I tried to pull this piece through with paint. I painted the legs and braces black, and then covered my hands with blue paint and picked up the stool. It turned [...]

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