Mike Lyon

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Lennie Berkowitz Knock Apart Stool

June 24, 2002 By Mike Lyon

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” […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: African Teak, Assembly Instructions, Bottom Edges, Box Kite, Cabo San Lucas, Chinese Puzzle, Fasteners, Glue, Kitchen Stool, Legs, Lennie, Match, Mexico, Notches, Photo, Shape, Sharp Edges, Stools, Suitcase, Top And Bottom

Cedar Stools

May 25, 2002 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Glue, Inlays, Joinery, Mortises, Perpindicular, Physical Connections, Stools

Stools of Cocobolo and Curly Maple

August 25, 2001 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Appearance, Curly Maple, E Prints, Legs, One Pair, Port Townsend Washington, Stools, Two Pairs

Two Stools maple and purple heart

January 24, 2001 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Auction, City Art Institute, Kansas City Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Legs, Purple Heart, Stools, Successors

Child’s Rocking Chair

December 15, 2000 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Birch, Christmastime, Eight Hours, Friend Lily, Inlay, Mouths, Old Friend, Preliminary Design, Rocking Chair, Runners, Scraps, Shellac, Smooth

Max’s Stool

June 24, 2000 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Amp, Fun, Lathe, Legs, Son Max

UMB Zen Garden Meeting Room design and construction

May 25, 2000 By Mike Lyon

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, […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: commission, Downtown Kansas City, Incandescent Lights, meeting room, Mintons, Moon Window, Relief Sculpture, Six Chairs, Tile Patterns, UMB, Wood Block Prints, Zen Garden

Hand Print Stool

June 24, 1999 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Acrylic Paint, Birch Wood, Blue Paint, Blue Prints, Braces, Hand Prints, Lacquer Finish, Legs, Mistake, Orientation, Stretchers

Torii Stool

June 24, 1999 By Mike Lyon

OK, this has to be my best stool. I can’t keep my eyes off it. Proportions are just right, the seat so organically curved, the joints well formed and tight. It’s pretty perfect. And one leg (must be the back one in this photo) has the most beautiful open knot just above the knee. I was looking for the feel […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Back Of My Mind, Joints, Knot, Lacquer Finish, Miyajima Island, Photo, Proportions, Stools, Torii Gate, Wood Cuts

Checker Stools

May 25, 1999 By Mike Lyon

I spent three weeks in the fall of 1998 at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado adding to my traditional moku-hanga and other water based print making skills with Hiroki Morinoue and Allen Smith. An artist in residence there, Ulrika Scriba from Gengenbach, Germany, was especially interested in the several booklets I had authored […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Allen Smith, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Artist In Residence, Booklets, Clever Methods, Different Colors, Fluidity, Gengenbach, Glues, Hanga, Hiroki, Intarsia, Platters, Scriba, Snowmass Colorado, Spent Three, Tile Patterns, Ulrika Scriba, Wavy Lines, Woodcut, Woodwork

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