it's hard to believe it's labor day, historically thought of as 'the end of summer'. the calendar says we have three more weeks, and i like to think of summer going until the golf courses close and paddle tennis season starts. so, in my head i at least, have 6 more weeks of summer. the weather has been sooo spectacular here the lately, that i've been distracted from my writing. taking a break i guess. there has still been a lot going on though. we picked up
the desk above from
the local arts center where i had loaned it to them last year for their receptionist, hoping to sell it. we realized that it needed to be 'on its own' in one of the galleries, so we brought it back to the shop to refresh it ... good as new now, and still available. see the link above or the
'stuff for sale' link in the 'pages' section off to the right there ..
below are a few of the things that have been happening the last couple of weeks.
we finished a base for a 60" round coffee table. the design was by a new york interior designer and the top was fabricated by our friends at
kb woodworking in cairo, new york .. they are the go to folks for fancy veneer work of all kinds ...
our part was pretty simple and involved a curved form and a little joinery .. we shipped it to the designer's finisher for bleaching and it will eventually end up on the east end of long island ..
and we finished up a collection of pieces for a house that will be finished shortly. we'll be delivering them all on the 11th ... above is a new version of
a sideboard we first made back in 2009. a little different arrangement of the dimensions, and the mirrors and so forth, but essentially, the same piece.
and sam made some funky custom door pulls for a local builder's new frig. it was a collaborative design, and they came out pretty cool .. the door panels were made from a tag sale bed headboard. pretty creative project all around.
and trevor and i visited a project we did back in 2009, a house in grafton where we did a lot of work. after five years, there were some rope lights that needed replacing, and the client was concerned that the weight of the center speaker (very heavy) on the ends of the cantilevered shelf support had bent the shelf. we'll be making a new version with a thicker top piece and hopefully, we can slide the old one out and the new one in without messing with the wiring, which was pretty complicated, to say the least.
on the way back, we visited another project to check templates for an upcoming railing project that sam will be starting before long .. the rolling door and stools below are also part of that one ..
reclaimed chestnut ... installation check in the upstairs of the metal shop ..
and the rest of the new house project .. a claro walnut slab coffee table
a dining table and six chairs
chris is working on another pop up tv cabinet .. more on that as it comes together later this week ..
and we had our first wedding among the 13 cousins ... that would be lizzie, in the white in the middle, sitting on the porch of her new house ... true to the family spirit, they are building it themselves, in their spare time, and for the party, the living room was stacked floor to ceiling with the flooring.
