Amazing Japanese woodturning.
This is a sweet little video about a Japanese woodturner and the traditional wooden dolls that he makes. His technique of plugin the dolls' head into their body is something I have never seen [...]
Wooden boatbuilding in England during WWII — A fascinating short film in honor of the seventieth anniversary of D-Day
During the second world war steel became a rare commodity. In fact, many metals became rationed for certain applications and this led engineers to revisit the use of "older" [...]
Gil Arad’s Birthing chair/stool – Part 2: The Campaign design
(Gil, with a plane in his hands, standing in his shop located near Jerusalem, Israel) Gil Arad is an Israeli furniture maker, a teacher and a designer. In a recent blog post I showed his first [...]
Gil Arad’s Birthing chair – Part 1: Ash and oak chair.
Birthing chair? Until a week ago I never heard of such a thing. In the spirit of, "you learn something new everyday," I learned about birthing chairs when my friend and fellow [...]
Liz Koerner’s "Dash" coffee table.
Studio furniture maker Liz Koerner is a recent graduate of the Core program at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. In 2012 she took my Campaign furniture class where she began designing [...]
David Ebner furniture show and video
David Ebner is a master furniture maker from Long Island, New York. I saw one of his elegant console tables in The Salon: Art + Design in Manhattan a few months ago. He showed this piece in the [...]
Christina Pupos folded chair
In June 2012 I taught a furniture design class at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Penland is a fantastic place with the best facilities, staff, students, and perhaps most importantly: [...]
Short film: Chair making in the Margaree Valley, Nova Scotia
I stumbled upon this short film today and I am confident you will enjoy watching it (perhaps with one reservation which I'll explain below). It was created in Canada in 1959 and was titled [...]
Don and Chris Boules’ Toy Marble slides.
While visiting the Boules in preparing to write the article, I noticed impressive marble slides awaiting final assembly and a touch of a finish. I asked them to tell me more about them. It turns [...]
Don and Chris Boule: Their shop and work processes
When I work on an article I collect a great deal of images and stories about my protagonist. In the case of Chris and Don, many of my favorite shop photos and work processes could not fit within [...]
Don and Chris Boule, father and son – master period furniture makers.
If you open the most recent issue of Woodwork magazine you will see two stories that I wrote. One is about an Israeli studio furniture artist named Jeremy Kimchi and the other is about a father [...]
Architect Richard Meier’s wooden model museum.
When you visit iconic architect Richard Meier’s website you will see a splendid display of sleek white & light modern structures and design. Yet, when you visit Meier’s newly open [...]
