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 is square-butt/glue and screw, with double plywood table base for extra strength, so that coffee table can also serve as a bench. Finish is polyurethane (surface has 7 coats).

Size: 47 in (w) by 20 in. (d) by 17 in. (h).

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 is cherry with brass corner caps, and Plexiglas glazing.  Note the bottom cut outs for power and electronics cables.

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 louvers; the back face is etched glass that provides great backsplash lighting. Wood materials include maple, tiger maple, maple veneer plywood, and ebony wood for inlay accent and trim. Other notable features include a lockable, fold-down surface at a comfortable height for mixing, and a lockable fold-down cabinet door hinged at the base with bottle rack; this piece rests on hidden, locking casters. The upper “bar” work area has a grounded electronic outlet with small light and main lamp switch, plus racks for glasses and bar tools tools.

Size: (base) 40 in (w) by 32 in. (d); (height at peak of arch) 64 in.

Price: $3,200.

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 and glass rod as spacer support toward the feet. Electrical fixture is a double ceiling fixture socket that holds two 60-watt bulbs; the other lighting features include etched glass lens filling both arch faces; in-line dimmer switch.

Size: 24 in. (w) by 32 in. (h) by 7 in. (d).
Price: $825

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 has a lower shelf made up of hardwood wood slats. The electrical fixture is made up of three ceramic sockets, each holding a 100-watt halogen bulb offset with an insulated aluminum metal reflector, and made adjustable with an in-line dimmer switch.

Size: 38 in. (h) by 30 in. (w) by 9 in. (d).
Price: $1,700

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 tea candle placement, with provides illumination of the interior space.

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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 surface elements include ceramic slab, a wood block made up of multiple kinds of wood, and an illuminated slide strip presenting portrait and still life studies.

Size: 34 in. (w) by 20 in. (d) by 20 in. (h).

Price: $1,525.