Mike Lyon

Painting Drawing Printmaking Japanese Woodblock Printing Furniture Lighting

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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

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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