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My Little Sister's Kitchen

figured cherry and tamo veneers, cherry, nogal, teak, glass.

Anyone who contemplates making furniture for a living should, after a thorough session in any reputable psychiatric institution, make certain they have at least one family member who excels in a career that pays well. Fortunately for Holman Studios, my sister is really good at what she does, and fortunately for me, she kindly forbears her middle brother's eccentricities. Mindy and Frank wanted a cool kitchen to replace the white plastic one they had, and this is what we came up with. Lighting by Styer and Associates.

 

Mindy and Fronk's Living Room:
Figured white oak veneer, quartered white oak, bubinga, ebonized mahogany;
Mindy and Fronk were looking for something to warm up the large expanse of living room in their contemporary home. We chose warm wood tones, and incorporated some carving to bring a human scale to the work.

Eckenfelder Kitchen:
Cherry solids and veneers, figured maple solids and veneers, walnut;
When the Mormon bishop of a nearby town was building his home, he asked me to do the kitchen after seeing my wife and me in Home magazine. I tried to make the kitchen look like individual pieces of furniture rather than rows of identical cabinets
St. Germain Library:
Cabinets: pine, dyes, glazes, glass; bible stand: crotch mahogany veneers, mahogany, dyes, glazes.
Janet has a fascinating collection of old volumes; we designed these cases -- in an eighteenth century portion of her home -- to hold them. The glass shelves are inert and don't react with the paper and bindings of the books.

John and Cathy's Shaker Cabinets:
Butternut;
When Cathy is seeking refuge from John and his cigars, she comes to the relative tranquility of this study. These cabinets are based on Shaker examples in Enfield, NH, and store, among other things, a quite un-Shaker television and a wet bar.

 

John's Room 1:
Cherry veneers and solids.
John wanted a room that felt like a mens' club of old, where he could sit in a big, overstuffed chair by the fire and smoke cigars and drink old scotch, surrounded by 300 of his favorite books. I paneled all the walls in cherry; John supplies his own scotch.

 

John's Room 2:
Pine, dyes, glazes;
John didn't have a place big enough for his collections of knives, shotguns, humidors, fishing rods, fishing nets, sporting books, fly-tying equipment, etc. He also needed to accomodate raucous gatherings of men, cigars and the prerequisite cocktails. John's second room adresses these needs, while to all appearances having been there since Ethan Allen trod the Green Mountains.

Livingston Kitchen:
Pine, dyes;
Judy needed a kitchen in her Victorian home, so we matched existing casework in the butler's pantry. Combined with the marble counters, the casework looks like it has always been there.

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