portfolio pictures

 

Labor Day!  a day off 

the blog post below was originally published in 2016.

 i stumbled across it yesterday in one of my 'blog to print' books

and thought it would be interesting to new readers.

the 2016 blog post starts below ...

and in the 'slide show' section on my blog there are even more

early portfolio images. 

 

2016 ... well, ok ... i stumbled across a folder full of pictures this morning and 

i thought they would make a good blog post.  as an example, on the 'page' above, there is a 

10' cherry table, 8 windsors, 4 stools and a nine foot wide by 8 foot high sideboard.  couple of months right there.  also, a pair of maple cabinets with c.r. ashbee inspired  inlays and a 60" round table ...

another couple of months there.

until 2007, when i first started my blog and more or less moved my 'portfolio' online,

i kept photos of my work in these three 20 page, 14" x 17"  binders.  in august of 2014, i intended to migrate these portfolios into my slide show area by taking careful photos of each page but never finished the job or ever finished taking the photos .. looking through them this morning made

me realize i maybe ought to get on it and finish that project ... maybe next week ...

anyway, here they are .. click the photos to enlarge them ... 

honestly, i forgot i made a lot of these pieces ...

 

a desk, a credenza and a coffee table, and the inspiration for the 

c.r. ashbee arts and crafts style pieces pieces

a couple desks, a small dining table, a really funky windsor and some stools ..

a nice game table .. another desk some side tables and a japanese rice paper screen ..

the famous 'snook table' .. 46 x 68 and 

at the beach' a small half round with similar inlays .. i still have that one ..

a coffee table, a cabinet with a curved front, a 54" round cherry table with a lacewood inlay, 

a cherry and lacewood coffee table, a reclaimed chestnut table and a funky sideboard piece.

lots more stuff here

and here .. the bubinga sideboard goes with the 

one board bubinga table on the 'page' below ..

a nice 'studio style' sideboard and an 8' knife display case

some nice doors; an interesting masonic table restoration and a classy 

cherry and figured ash desk with some rosewood inlays

a cherry corner cupboard with curly maple panels and drawer fronts ..

 

skippy, our dog, who left us in 2006 .. a nice cherry and maple dresser ..

another big sideboard, one of a pair, and a nice curly maple dining table

my favorite curly maple sideboard 

and a cool bench and mirror with carvings and appliques ..

a few more 'studio style' pieces

  just found some more ...

my, my, my ... lots of pictures ... the tapered cabinet made the back cover of one of 

the fine woodworking design books ... must have been around 1990

 game tables ..

 wildlife carving on the table legs ...

 early headboard inlays

 ditto ...

 metal chairs .. a black console ...

more game tables

 first cabinet with abalone center right .. 1985??

 'shaker' hutch

 early 80s brochure cover ..

 2nd commisssion .. 1979 .. the yellow shaker desk ..

'japanese style' coffee table .. studio style table and sideboard

glass topped coffee table ...

 'greene and greene' style chairs with handpainted silk seats

the original tansu stairs photos .. before and after .. 1989

a crotch mahogany veneered sideboard .. 

notice the difference a professional photographer can make ..

"it's where we keep the tv to keep it out of sight"

some detail shots ...  the studios .. central park west .. 

the pieces barely fit in the elevator ..

 i used to make a lot of ornamental sash

 the original mother myricks .. 1983, manchester center ... 

A Brunswick Reproduction Pool Table

 

SOLD!

this client, who has sold her house has offered this table to a friend of mine at a VERY reasonable price, and he has purchased it ... and a bonus for me is that he has

moved several pool tables in the past and says that he won't need my help!

all is well that ends well!!!

 

we built this Brunswick reproduction pool table for some long time clients back in 2003 ...the house is under a sales contract and the new owners have a different plan for where the pool table is now.  so, it has to go by the first of march, two months! 

  back in the day, we received a design award for this 

table from custom woodworking magazine ... there are some

other pieces that will become available once my client

makes a final decision on what to keep and what to let go.

the kas style cabinet in the background is one of them 

 

this is a long time client, definitely in the all time top 5, so

there are many possibilities.  i will post more photos as time passes ... 

 

to see about 10 of the 25 or so pool tables we have built in the 

last 45 years, here's a link to a previous blog post ... 

a few more favorites

in a previous post i promised 'a few more favorites'

and here are 'a few more' ... with almost 1000 posts to choose from, 

it gets a little tricky ...

click the pictures to enlarge them ...

interior design, and

'the spaces we make'

the blog post for the link above is mostly highlight 

general thoughts on architectural and interior design, and

comments on the furniture design/make process ...

 

drawing and thinking : thinking and drawing ...

this is an excerpt from an article by ashley ericsmoen,

an australian based furniture designer/maker and professor of design ... 

i have been drawing for pleasure since i bought the book

'drawing on the right side of the brain' by betty edwards,

back when i had to learn how to present my ideas to 

potential customers back in the late 70s. sadly, i made it

through high school and college without ever having an art course.

there are two relevant posts at the link above and both are 

discussions of the creative process

and two articles recently in the new york times and the new yorker

on ideas and creativity

new york times   temple grandin .. visual thinking

 new yorker  'how should we think about thinking?'

'handwork'?  'machine work'? cnc? does it matter?

 

some cnc work ... 1997, using a cnc at a friend's shop

all 'handwork', no cnc ... 1993?

a cnc router is 'just a tool' that lets us

do things no one would likely pay us to do without it.

the tansu stairs .. both of them 

                                     

these stairs went to california, along with about 15 lineal 

feet of railings for the second floor

the photos the client sent that we used for the concept drawings;

the builder provided onsite measurements to create the shop drawings.

the original tansu stairs,  a local project we did in 1989 ... 

with the railings we added in 2014

sam's belt buckles

pretty much anything you want on them ...

and in case you missed it back in july, 

there's my 'old man project', still a work in progress ...

there are 6 posts there that i still add to from time to time .. 

story of my 51.5 years of life in vermont, and a little bit

from before i stepped off the bus in arlington to visit my sister.

i had $6. in my pocket, and everything i owned in one hand.

all for now ...