Veneer Art, Marquetry Furniture and Design
New furniture, artwork, and pieces in progress
This was a commissioned piece, for a wall-hung 6′ diameter pumpkin-shaped cabinet with 10 articulated doors. A departure from marquetry into designing a way of forming of epoxy infused panels to create a visual and mechanically dynamic art piece, for a utilitarian cabinet type setting. A favorite combination of mine is the red Mercedes gloss, […]
Making the critically sized divider blocks for the pivoting drawers on this table held up this project for quite some time, since I was unsure about drilling eight extremely precise holes with only vague lines for reference. Two weeks making jigs, three hours for milling the four blocks and eight minutes for drilling the holes. Challenging little things, which had to milled to a […]
Three-ply, decoratively veneered, serpentine, cabinet faces. This piece was collaboration between two shops, where we did the veneer work here in Santa Barbara, and the casework was done by Steve Balter in Seattle, WA. The curved front face of the cabinet has a serpentine footprint, and the finished three-ply skins that make a stable yet flexible 2mm […]