Gallery II
Miscellaneous
Three sea chests. One is cherry, one alder and the other is pine painted with milk paint. The design was taken from an original 18th or 19th century sea chest in a maritime museum. Chests of this type, which were used by sailors on the square-riggers to keep their belongings, were lashed to the deck next to their bunk, where they also served as a sofa. The becket (handle) was an important example of the owner's seamanship skills. The better the becket; the better position they got on board.
Walnut and woven cherry.
Wenge with woven bubinga.
Purpleheart. This piece was lost in the
Oakland firestorm of 1991. The fire was the largest, most costly fire since
the 1906 San Francisco earth quake and fire. 2843 homes were lost.
This cherry
conference table is over eight feet long.
Oak.
Purpleheart display case with a 600 year Korean celadon.
A set of redwood lawn furniture, designed to
match the trim on a client's house, also lost in the Oakland fire.
The night stands from the very first picture. Cherry, Bolivian rosewood and granite with ebony handles. They were made as a mirrored image pair, however, this is two views of the same piece.
A sculptural piece of walnut about two feet
high. The cube is mounted on a ball bearing so that it can be
turned.
A cherry footstool.
The design for this alder bench was taken from a renaissance painting of a bar-room scene.
A bubinga lamp modeled after a Japanese floor
lamp called an andon. Since the Japanese
historically sat on the floor, an andon
would need to be only about 2 1/2 feet high. This one is electrified but the
original held an oil lamp inside.
This is a copy of a mid 17th century French harpsichord, which I made in 1970. I got my start in woodworking making musical instruments.
This is a type of harpsichord called a Flemish virginals. It is copied after an original from 1598 and was made in 1970.
This is a pulling (rowing) boat called a Whitehall. It is an American design from the 19th century which was considered one of the two most important designs in American nautical architecture; the other being the clipper ship. I built this when my shop was in San Francisco in collaboration with Douglas Brooks, a boat builder now living in VT. This was the only launching that it got before I had to ship it off to it's owner in Florida. The dew on the grass was not quite deep enough to float it.