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Barb’s China Cabinet
mahogany and mahogany veneers,
nogal, glass; 22” deep x 84” high x 90” long;
Barb
and Doug are two of the hardest working people I’ve
ever met. They also happen to own a nice set of French Art
Deco dining room furniture, and needed a place to display
their china. We designed this cabinet with all the design
motifs of the original pieces, but the doors work a little
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Derek and Catherine's Celestial Mantle
mahogany, padauk,
purpleheart, figured maple, figured oak, wenge, bubinga.
This fine couple inherited their whimsical work from the
diva who
commissioned it. She had asked for a mantle that evoked
the great spaces beyond our own, and I think we captured
a bit
of it, anyway.
Mantle Detail
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Triple B Hutch (Big Beideman Buffet)
As my sister and nearly favorite
brother-in-law warily approach the onset of full maturity,
they felt their former dining room set (ingredients: particleboard,
opalescent auto paint, and duct tape) needed some updating.
I designed a dining room set, including this hutch, that
had one foot firmly in the adult world but lets everyone
know
they're
still
a
little wacky. Especially my brother-in-law.
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Asia Hutch:
figured cherry; 14” deep
x 42” wide x 78” high;
The simple, Eastern-inspired
lines of this hutch let the cherry do the talking. I like its
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Reliquary Chest:
soft curly maple
veneers and solids, aromatic cedar; 24” high x 24” wide
x 48” long;
I like to contrast smooth, sharply defined
planes with textured, carved surfaces. I snuck this piece out
of our bedroom to enter it in several furniture competitions,
and subsequently learned that a few design accolades are not
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R2D2, Two:
Mahogany, East Indian
rosewood; 13” deep x 19” wide x 45” high;
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This little cabinet was designed to fit in a special spot
in Catherine’s family room and hold components for
her home-wide music system. The carved sections of the
cabinet front make
the piece feel like an ancient talisman.
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Georgine's
Buffet:
Figured cherry veneers, cherry,
white pine, nickel pulls; 18" wide x 36" high x 72" long.
This buffet was yet another in
a long series of transparent attempts to ingratiate myself with
my spouse. As I point out to her, the sliding doors allow unencumbered
access to the contents.
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C and C Dresser/Armoire:
Figured anigre veneers, quartered
bubinga solids and veneers, wenge; 23" wide x 78" high x 84"
long.
The undulating drawer faces made
this an extremely challenging, but satisfying, piece to build.
It shares those curves with the entire bedroom set, giving the
room a surprisingly serene feel. |
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Music Cabinet:
Swirl mahogany veneers, mahogany
veneers and solids, ebonized mahogany; 16" deep x 32" wide x
66" high.
This piece, which holds sheet
music, was designed to complement the magnificent Dakota Jackson
Steinway piano next to which it sits. It took some planning
to get that figured veneer to match all the way across the front.
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Roger and Linda's Buffet:
Cherry veneers and solids, mahogany
veneers and solids, maple, cocobolo, poplar; 16" wide x 36"
high x 72" long.
This bow-front buffet is a contemporary
look at traditional Hepplewhite and Sheraton forms. |
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Pagoda Cabinet:
Beeswing mahogany veneers,
mahogany, padauk; 15" deep x 24" wide x 56" high.
This little cabinet was commissioned
in 1991 to hold VHS tapes. Sadly, the march of time and technology
will soon render it obsolete.
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Paul's Big Thing:
Figured maple veneers and solids,
baltic birch plywood, frosted glass, aniline dyes, auto body
filler; 24" deep x 78" high x 96" long.
As the name suggests, this piece
is one of several designed by my friend and creative mentor
Paul Molinelli, and marks the beginning of my brief flirtation
with bondo. With atop coat of satin lacquer, this oft and justifiably
maligned product looks remarkably like stone. |
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M and F Armoire and Dresser:
Figured maple veneers, quartered
maple veneers, quartered cherry veneers and solids; 24" deep
x 52" wide x 84" high (armoire); 20" deep x 72" wide x 84"
high (dresser).
These two pieces, and the accompanying
bed, are an exercise in interesting juxtapositions of sculptural
volumes.
That means they don't look
like a bunch of boards glued together, but rather parts with
mass assembled into larger forms.
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Curly Oak
Cabinet:
Flitch-sawn
figured red oak, purpleheart, padauk, glass; 19.5" deep
x 41" wide x 79" high.
My friend Bob Crosby sold me some
beautiful curly red oak; I designed this piece to make best
use of the exceptional figure. |
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TD's Gun Case:
Mahogany; 16" deep x 48" wide
x 88" high.
TD, like many of his Vermont compatriots,
is quite a sportsman; accordingly, he needed a place to store
and display his shotgun collection. This was the first of several
I've built for the hunting population of my adopted home state.
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Bomboire:
Bubinga veneers and solids,
purpleheart, bronzing powders, acrylic paints, bomb; 26" deep
x 48" wide x 88" high.
I built this piece for a show
as a comment on the surprises life sometimes has in store
for us. As if to confirm that supposition, this piece ended
up not in New York or L.A, but in Omaha.
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John and Carolyn's Console:
Figured cherry veneers and solids,
ebonized mahogany; 22" wide x 39" high x 60" long.
John, who has done photo work
for me since those early ages when people used a product called
film, liked JeJe's buffet and wanted a piece that could hide
his TV (in the dark days before 52" flat screen televisions).
We traded his work for mine. |
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Peyton's Armoire:
Cherry, figured maple, ipil,
aromatic cedar; 24" deep x 48" wide x 84" high.
My college roommate Peyton is
a really smart guy (though not very good at choosing college
roommates); he commissioned this in 1985 after he had a good
job for a while. Beyond that, this piece has special significance
because it signifies for me the point at which my work became
consistently solid. |
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Self Portrait Armoire (sans
soul):
curly maple, mahogany,
quartered cherry, purpleheart, gold leaf, diamond-plate
steel
82"h x 48"w x 22"d
I built this for a show at the Hood Museum
at Dartmouth College. Like me, the piece is pretty unremarkable on the
outside, though it picques your interest if you get close enough.
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B and B Dresser/Armoire:
Figured maple, walnut, quartered
red oak; 28" wide x 72" high x 84" long.
Like the rest of this bedroom
set, this piece plays with the intersection of planes and cylinders.
The textured curved surfaces create a nice contrast to the smooth
surfaces of the flat planes. |
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R2D2:
Beeswing mahogany veneers,
mahogany, wenge, gold leaf, glass; 16" deep x 24" wide x 66"
high.
This anthropomorphic little
dsplay cabinet was a whimsical foray into art deco motifs.
R2D2 has always been one of my favorites; fortunately, he's
in a good home.
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Black and Blue Cabinet:
Ash, figured maple, aniline dyes,
acrylic paints; 22" deep x 48" wide x 76" high.
This piece was designed by my
talented friend and sometime employee Paul Molinelli. The blue
panels are dyed maple finished with multilpe coats of gloss
lacquer, giving them almost a polished stone appearance. |
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Cascade Lingerie Chest:
Figured maple, quartered cherry,
purpleheart veneers and solids, wenge veneers. 20" wide x 20"
deep x 66" high;
This is my take on a traditional
form. The collapsing checkerboard looks like someone closed
the drawers too hard. |
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