Custom Furniture

Made from a wood sawn from a single tree, this case uses traditional joinery— mortise-and-tenon joints for the doors and hand-cut dovetails for the drawers. Click on the image for more images.

In order to house the electronics for the TV and stereo, the bottom "drawers" are actually a single carved piece of wood that hinges down for access to that space.

This farm table was made from Vermont cherry with the top  made from bookmatched boards. All joinery was mortise-and-tenon.

The compass rose was constructed of walnut and maple on a cherry ground with borders of ebony, herringbone inlay, and cross-grain English oak. Each corner has a constellation in mother-of-pearl stars.

One of the few times I used true Honduras mahogany for a commission. The finishing took almost as long as the building!

Built to house a plasma screen TV, the case has a separate back compartment to house cooling fans and remote access to stereo, DVD, and TV functions.

On this commission, I worked with the carpenters on the job assisting with implementing an idea into a working design and executing it. They built it with some help from me and I finished it. The most interesting part was  incorporating these antique dog sculptures into the design.  

This project started with a client having three slabs of walnut cut by their grandfather. Two became the top and the other the slab leg.

This design was a collaboration between the client, a decorator, and me. While I did not have access to a flitch or boulle of wood, I was able to find a number of sequential boards that allowed me to arrange the parts artfully.

An oval trestle table is a rarity, but this space called for just that. Inspired by Shaker and Arts-and-Crafts styles, a design with straightforward joinery and limited decoration was used. The beveled edges with a lamb's tongue termination was as wild as I got!

This table takes all of two minutes to break down or set up and yet is very rigid.