Catching Up

Well, so far, for a refreshing change, it's been a pretty busy month ... We finished what I thought at the time was a pretty big claro walnut slab table, 3' x 10', below. Turns out, it's not so big. We'll be able to put four of them, probably with chairs, on the table (that's just half of it above ) we are currently designing and building with Steve Holman of Holman Studios ... The first of two tables in this commission will be 26' x 9' and then we have another tiny one to build that will be only 8' x 20'. Steve's shop is just down the road from ours and we often collaborate on projects like this one and like this project we did last year. More on the big table later this weekend ....
Also, today, Will and Ashley are on their way to New York City for the weekend and, while they are there, they will drop off the 10 walnut chairs in the photo above to the client who got the black Art Deco vanity a couple of weeks ago. They looked really good with the table above, but the client received their Nakashima table yesterday and I'm anxious to see how they look with that. Last weekend, I went to Boston to drop off three tables to a designer I sometimes work with, Jennifer Palumbo. You can see two of them in the photo below. And then I spent the weekend visiting my sister in Rockport, just up the coast by Gloucester. While I was there, we made an afternoon of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem with the Ying Yu Tang Chinese house ... Spectacular museum with a great collection of North Boston shore Federal furniture, ship models, and other fascinating stuff.
Classic Rockport, motif #1 Roy Moore's LobstersOne of the Seymours.
Also, in Boston, I visited my Brother in law's letterpress print shop, Firefly Press, (more on that later ... It was really cool) and dropped a small table/mockup Sam made at the home of the cockatoo chairs ...
We're about a day away from finishing the king size bed with the metal inlays we have been working on. That has been an immensely rewarding project on a number of different levels. Love the clients, Will did all the turning and carving and some of the inlay work, Sam did all the metal finishing and coloring, Trevor did a fantastic job with the CNC work on the inlays, we learned a whole lot about waterjetting, (the post just below this one) which was fascinating. As we were working on that, Jim occasionally entertained us all with his new coat.
The duck inlay parts ...
The week before last, we installed one of the two tv cabinets we made back in the fall in the 'This Old House' project. Looks great' the big one will go in the week after next.
For a 37" flat screen
Yesterday, a colleague asked me to join 'Linked In', which I did...any 'Linked In' folks out there? Don't know much about it but it seemed like something I should do ....Comments? If you haveany experience with it. Kind of like Facebook for business people it seems ... Anyway, it's a really rainy Saturday.... no golf or tennis today ... Where's that Hunter Thompson book I'm reading?....More later if it keeps raining ...