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...
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...
Consider making this folk-art tree for next Christmas season.
As some of us have already begun dismantling this year's Christmas tree, the tree made in this video most certainly would not be tossed to the sidewalk. I do not...
Scaffolding in a library: Celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Eliot House Woodworking Program
During my first year at Eliot House I came up with a novel idea: to build a wooden structure inside Eliot's Library to carry lights and define dedicated floor space...
Students’ work: Celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Eliot House Woodworking Program
To wrap up my blogging about the ten year anniversary of the Eliot House Woodworking Program I would like to show a few images of projects by our devoted students....
Mike Dombrowsky’s table: Celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Eliot House Woodworking Program
Mike Dombrowsky spent two semesters with us at the Eliot Woodshop. After contemplating a few project alternatives he zoomed in on making a shaker influenced end table, but with a...
Philip Hendrix’s beer stand: Celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Eliot House Woodworking Program
Philip's other project that I want to show here is his adaptation for the always popular wine bottle stand. Philip's idea was to develop a board to carry not a...
Philip Hendrix’s cutting board: Celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Eliot House Woodworking Program
Own of our best students at the Eliot House Woodshop was Philip Hendrix. Philip was a graduate student in computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering who demonstrated real...
Ten year anniversary for the Eliot House Woodworking program, Harvard College – Part 3: Guest talks
One of the most rewarding activities we came up with was to invite furniture makers, wood artists, and people who have contributed to woodworking in a profound way, to come...
Ten year anniversary for the Eliot House Woodworking program, Harvard College – Part 2: Field trips
Last time I wrote about and showed you the old shop and the complete make over we put it through. This time I will talk about our woodworking program. After...
Ten year anniversary for the Eliot House Woodworking program, Harvard College: Part 1
I guess some of you are scratching your heads. What does this ivy league institution have to do with woodworking? Well, as it happened, Harvard, or more precisely Eliot House...
Illegal logging in Peru endangers the rain forest
The New York Times dedicated a front page story (on its website) addressing the issue of illegal logging in Peru and how it affects people who live in the Amazon forest....
