Legendary Mid-Century Designs Highlighted in the Boyd Collection
Get an inside look at the legendary contemporary and mid-century designs featured in the Boyd Collection at Chicago's Wright auction house.
When Facets and Diagonals Meets a Live Edge – Part 2
Yoav and his student David demonstrate crafting an elegant antiprism design on the legs of this formerly boxy bench.
Rustication Heightens Both Organic and Crafted Elements of Design
One of my favorite places is a neighborhood Italian market called DeVitis. Every time I step through the door, I stop and let the smells of a great kitchen waft over me. Italian sausages and [...]
When Facets and Diagonals Meets a Live Edge – Part 1
Last July I returned to Peters Valley School of Crafts to teach a six day-long class in live edge furniture making. Live edge, aka Natural Edge, is one of my most beloved wood mediums.
Digital Artistry — Meet the Artist: Bob Spangler
Meet the artists from the December 2017 issue How five masterful makers integrate CNC and CAD technology into their woodworking In the December 2017 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine, the [...]
Digital Artistry — Meet the Artist: Curtis Erpelding
Meet the artists from the December 2017 issue How five masterful makers integrate CNC and CAD technology into their woodworking. In the December 2017 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine, the [...]
Blackened Wood: Designing with Fire
Black and grays are the stars of today’s architecture and furniture design. Most of the black in today’s wood furniture and cabinetry is painted or produced by means of stains and [...]
Rohlfs & Stickley: A Case of Flowery Inspiration
Darrell Peart raised an interesting questions during my recent web seminar on “Unkown Arts & Crafts” for Popular Woodworking University. He noted the similarities between one of Rohlfs’ [...]
Design by Substitution
I’ve enjoyed Chuck’s and Bob’s posts on design and recently had cause to think about them while working on a coffee table for an upcoming book on Mid-Century Modern furniture. At the risk of [...]
The Telephone Game – Woodworking Version
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson You know what the Telephone Game is, right? One person starts by whispering a phrase into the [...]
One-Stop Shop for Furniture Design
All woodworkers know that improving their bench skills and learning new workshop techniques are necessary parts of becoming a better woodworker. Just as important but often overlooked, however, [...]
Brian Boggs on Furniture Design
In the November 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, a special 200th anniversary issue celebrating some of the best makers working today, I wrote a piece on chairmaker Brian Boggs. In [...]
