‘Sculpted with a bandsaw’ The City Series is a collection of sculptures by James McNabb, he uses a technique that involves intuitive cutting with a bandsaw, a form of drawing in wood. James uses scrap’s from his furniture making and makes cuts as the abstract shapes develop into buildings, a process he calls "sketching with a band saw" the resultant shapes resemble architectural forms which become…
The summer of 2014 will be remembered amongst certain woodworkers as the year that brought the classic English tool chest home. A design that has been transported around the globe for centuries, it has become the symbolic emblem of a true craftsman. Light weight and built to withstand the rigors of a typical journeyman, the hand tools inside have quite literally shaped our world.
Rising furntiure, cleverly designed, simple, elegant and functional. Robert Van Embricqs focuses on combining functionality with an esthetically pleasing look, this is flexible furniture that reverts to its basic form. A collection that can be stored completely flat when not in use. Robert starts out by making small incisions in a flat surface and studies the otherwise rigid wood’s reaction to the new shape. When it comes to…
The innovative talents of David Roentgen and his inventive European furniture making. This work features finely worked marquetry panels combined with ingenious mechanisms using weights and springs, which with just the press of a button or turn of a key can activate the opening of adjacent doors, popping-out of drawers, hidden niches and secret mirrors. These objects seem almost to turn themselves inside out. Furniture as art is…
