After starting work at a local furniture
store in ‘71, I realized that Furniture could be more
than a container in which to place your clothes, or a
comfortable chair to sit on while reading a book. Furniture can
become even more than a treasured family heirloom and a joy to
possess and look at, drawing out your memories associated with
the happiness it has brought to your life.
The practical side of employment helped me
to develop an ability to look at and study the designs and
flaws of manufactured furniture. I still use this learned
info today when designing everything, from something simple
like a small table to a shaped cabinet filled with drawers.
I have always had a desire to design and
create things. I guess when you’re young you don’t
recognize this in the same way as you do later in life. For
instance, at age 18 while building a couple of custom
surfboards, I didn’t realize my ability to design, it was
just something I wanted to do. All the Art classes in college,
it never crossed my mind how valuable they would become. Yet
they formed a solid foundation to build upon. Likewise the
geometry from high school, that I just knew would never be used
again, now I struggle to remember and use it for most projects.
The cabinet finishing shop I was fired
from, because I wasn’t fast enough; the Furniture store
where I not only repaired defective and damaged furniture, but
even had calls to modify pieces for particular situations.
Starting my own business refinishing and
repairing furniture in ‘82 up to the
point of building custom furniture beginning in ‘86. Now
today I’m not only working on commissioned pieces, but
have works for Galleries
and Furniture Shows. All of these
experiences became building blocks, necessary steps to develop
my “Style” if you will.
Like most objects in and around our life,
we are the sum of our parts. This can be found in everything,
no single step or part is isolated on its own. Each piece of
wood, each joint affects the others around it and contribute to
the whole equation. Just as what you do affects others
around you, so it does with me. I believe what I’ve
developed and have
done in the past has become a part of what
I am today. I hope that my Furniture will become part of
your life and a small building block to your future.
My lovely Wife Karen and myself
