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

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

Flat Top Stools

May 24, 1999 By Mike Lyon

These two stools both incorporate half-inch thick cherry wood seats. In order to feel secure when sitting down, I re-inforced the seats with a pair of strips underneath running across the grain and glue joints. The stools use wedged through tenon construction throughout, and the legs are pinned to the seats with purple heart dowel (after I […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Cherry Wood, Dowel, Glue Joints, Incorporate, Legs, Purple Heart, Stools

First Stools

March 24, 1999 By Mike Lyon

My first stool is all cherry wood, with a deeply sculpted seat. Looks like it would be dangerous, but it’s really quite comfortable. The top is painted a beautiful, deep, ultramarine, and the legs have been lightly stained red. Not bad for a first attempt, but not nearly as nice as the second. The  second stool has a […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Attempt, Auction Fund Raiser, Cherry Wood, City Art Institute, Exhibition Two, Inclusion, Kansas City Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Legs, Preview Exhibition, Spreaders, Stools, Ultramarine

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