Custom Funiture

CF01 (Greenwood Table) This coffee table is made of walnut and cherry hardwood, with ceramic inset elements highlighted with gold-leafing on the top surface. Legs are 3-inch cherry rounds, with walnut  round cross-pieces and walnut and cherry dowels for bottom “shelf” structure.  Particular attention was paid to walnut figuring, including selection of knot-bearing pieces.  Construction [...]

CF03 (Murphy Piano Bench What does one do with limited space but a full-sized piano keyboard?  Here’s a commission that provides one answer: a “Murphy Bed” style cabinet that presents family images when folded up, and provides correct height keyboard access when down.  The body of the cabinet is poplar, painted white; photograph collage trim [...]

L22 (Bar Noir) Incorporating a free-form black-glazed terracotta arch atop of this four-foot high, 10-degree, free-standing pyramid cabinet designed to service as a movable bar. The light is provided by two vented 150-watt halogen lamps that shine up into the arch’s underside. The front face of the arch moderates light through four adjustable tiger maple [...]

Made for a desk or table surface, with direct incandescent lighting onto the surface from round cutouts underneath the lamp. Wood includes bubinga, paduk, and mahogany, with a base box made up of plywood and pine; construction is square butt joinery, using glue and hidden screws; legs are “found” Queen Ann-style, with multi-wood free-form shapes [...]

Arch Table Lamp Floor-standing furniture piece is useful as foyer illumination or, set aside a chair, as room/reading lighting. A variety of woods, including bubinga, cherry, paduk, and mahogany is used, along with plywood and pine for the base box; construction is square butt joinery, with gluing and exposed, countersunk brass wood screws; this piece [...]

This curved teak and multi-hardwood blanks and fish-scale oak trip boasts double door fronts with a bottom drawer.  The interior is upholstered in silk with carcass made of MD and plywood and shelf of thin-planed multi-wood blank.  Green-glazed terracotta a, with wood holders is placed over a top cut-out with small fitted glass bowl for [...]

Rich, Perfection, Projection, Reflection (2000) A coffee table piece, with drawer, casters, built on a one-hundred year-old yellow pine shipping box, with new walnut trim and walnut and maple drawer front; with assemblage of mirrored sunglasses, text on paper and glass fragment, and plate mirror within a dark-green upholstered box, under pate glass surface. Other [...]