Proportion Is Decided by Eye, Then Checked
I was staring at a prototype for a walnut sideboard last Tuesday, surrounded by the usual graveyard of failed ideas, when it hit me again. We spend so much time…
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From Sketch to Full Size Mock Up
I spent most of yesterday morning digging through a cardboard box in the corner of my studio, pulling out a series of bent plywood joints that look more like modern…
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A Dovetail That Needs No Filler
I was staring at a pile of walnut offcuts in my studio last Tuesday, thinking about the drawer front I’d nearly ruined three years ago. I had spent hours obsessing…
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What We Notice in Something Made by Hand
I was clearing out a corner of the studio last Tuesday when I tripped over the “almost” chair—a walnut stool from 2008 with a leg cut just three degrees too…
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