Mike Lyon

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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

Triangle tiled scroll woodcuts

September 6, 1999 By Mike Lyon

I made three large woodcut ‘scrolls’ in September of 1999. Two of them were installed in the Zen Garden Room I designed and built for the UMB Technology Center in Kansas city. Two of the prints were similar (I kept one for myself), and the third was twice as wide. I had already cut a bunch […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Block Printing, Brads, Japanese Paper, Japanese Scrolls, Kansas City, Linen, Mahogany Plywood, Moon Window, Prints, Squares, Sumi, Technology Center, Tiles, Triangle, Triangles, Zen Garden

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