Mike Lyon

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Slotted plywood disk constructions

January 15, 2014 By Mike Lyon

Experimenting with plywood disks, rings, etc slotted at various appropriate-seeming angles for half-lap construction

Filed Under: Featured, Furniture, Sculpture

Team Sukkit for Epsten Gallery and Jewish Museum

September 30, 2013 By Mike Lyon

Summer, 2013, Debbie Kaplan Glassberg recruited me to be “Lead Artist”, Sukkah Kit Team, ARTicipation: Abundance Garden Tasting & Sukkah Tour, The Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS. Debbie Kaplan once approached me with the idea of a kit sukkah and I replied with some simple sketches of plywood or plexi […]

Filed Under: Furniture, Sculpture

King Size Four Poster Ball Bed for Andy

December 18, 2012 By Mike Lyon

I promised my wife Linda that I’d complete a king-size bed for Andy’s room before Andy and Lauren arrived home for Christmas.  This was an interesting project. The idea was to make a mortise and tenon bed frame to support a plywood platform and memory-foam mattress – with fabulous stacked spherical posts.  The spheres would […]

Filed Under: Featured, Furniture, Video Tagged With: 192, Bed Frame, Cass, Christmas, King Size Bed, Lathe, Memory Foam Mattress, Mortise And Tenon, Painting, Plywood, Poster Bed, Priming, Spheres, Thread Rod

Bed Frame and Headboard

June 15, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Deeply engraved intersecting spiral-themed double bed for my daughter Allegra’s bedroom. CNC routed 3/4 inch MDF (medium density fiberboard) frame – all parts cut from a single sheet of 3/4 inch MDF – plus a 3/8 inch plywood platform to support the memory-foam mattress.

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Allegra, CNC, Inch Plywood, Mdf Medium Density, Memory Foam Mattress, Spiral

A Chandelier for Cecily and Mike

December 23, 2011 By Mike Lyon

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.

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Cecily, Chandelier, Christmas, Dining Room Table, Dining Table, Table Caption

Coffee Table for Jen and Chad

November 24, 2011 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Furniture

An Upholstered Bench with Eccentric Turned Legs

May 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Furniture, Video Tagged With: Curves, eccentric turning, Fabric, Flat Chisel, Lathe, Legs, Living Room, Shavings, Turnings, Upholstered Bench, Upholstered Furniture

Chandelier

November 15, 2009 By Mike Lyon

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

Filed Under: Featured, Furniture, Video Tagged With: Bulbs, cast, casting, Castings, Chandelier, electric, furniture, LED, light, lighting, Mold, plaster, Polyester Resin

A brief ‘break’ to make a table

November 20, 2005 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Furniture, Video Tagged With: Acrylics, Allegra, Anderson Ranch, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Apartment, Big Eye, Chairs, Circular Table, Coming Home, Cool Stuff, Dining Table, eccentric lathe, Lathe, Lulu, Mark Sfirri, Marker, Monster Table, Painting, Roommates, Spindle, Table Legs, Thanksgiving, Turning, Turnings

Lake Table and Ten Chairs of Ipe

June 25, 2002 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Brass Screws, Elements, Home At Lake, Ironwood, Joinery, Lake Lotawana, Lincoln, Lincoln Log, Log Style, Prototypes, Sinks, Tapped Holes, Weathers, Wood Chairs

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