A week in the Davidson College infirmary produced an epiphany that saved me from a life in my family’s car business and saved my family’s car business from a life with me. After switching majors from economics to English, I graduated in 1978 and spent a year building wooden boats on Cape Cod, a year building farmworker housing in California’s central valley, and a year working for a furniture maker in Oakland. In 1981 I moved to Vermont and built post and beam houses for a short time before opening my own furniture making shop. I wanted to build fine custom furniture. Being young and ignorant (“so stupid you don’t know you’re stupid,” my grandfather said), it took me a few years to get on track, but I built my first decent piece of custom furniture in 1985. I think the work’s been pretty solid since.

Selected Publications
2009 500 Tables: Inspiring Interpretations of Function and Style, Lark Books

2008 102 Contemporary Furniture Designs, Taunton Press
2008 Fine Woodworking Magazine, August

2005 Boston Globe, 26 January

2003 Custom Woodworking Business, July

2000 American Style Magazine, Fall

1996 Vermont Magazine, March/April

1995 The Veneering Book, Taunton Press

1994 Boston Globe, 27 March

1992 Vermont Magazine, July/August

1991 Creative Designs in Furniture, Kraus Sikes

1991 Design Times, November/December

1987-1996 Fine Woodworking Design Books, IV -VII, Taunton Press

Selected Shows
2010 The State of Craft, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT

2003 The Exquisite Pillow, traveling Frog Hollow show

2000 Solo Show, Frog Hollow at the Equinox

2000 The Art of Craft, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

1996 Solo Show, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT

1995 Solo Show, Elm Street Arts, Manchester, VT

1993 Intersections, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont

1991 Northeast Splendor, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston

Selected Honors
2006 Custom Woodworking Business Design Portfolio Award

2005 Vermont Wood Products Marketing Council, 1st Place, Custom Furniture

2005 Custom Woodworking Business Design Portfolio Award