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Readers Gallery
MORE from Fine Woodworking Issue #151
Furniture From San Diego's Del Mar Fair
Featured in Readers Gallery and on the back cover of Fine Woodworking # 151, are some of the winners from this year's Design in Wood competition held at San Diego's Del Mar Fair. Because of space constraints, we weren't able to publish as much of the winners' work as we would have liked. The following four winning entries also caught the eye of the staff of Fine Woodworking.
John E. DeGirolamo
"Small Cabinet for Special Things"
Apollo Sprayers, Inc. Finishing Award - 2nd Place
18 in. deep by 36 in. wide by 31 in tall
Japele Mahogany, Ash, Maple, Spanish cedar and Ebony
DeGirolamo is the Director of Creative Services at KUSI News in San Diego and also runs a furnituremaking business out of his studio in Ramona, Calif. Interested in woodworking since childhood, he is self-taught and has been building furniture for the past ten years. DeGirolamo is currently an instructor at Conover Workshops in Parkman, Ohio and is also a member of both The Furniture Society and The San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association.
Photo by Lynn Rybarczyk and Ed Suszynski, courtesy of San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association.
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William Bardick
"Dotted CD Cabinet"
San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association Award - 2nd Place
12 in. deep by 22 in wide by 58 in. tall
White Oak and Purpleheart
Fascinated with intricate natural patterns, Bardick often incorporates them into his work to create unusual visual effects. He also likes combining two or more species of wood as a design element because of the aesthetic contrast it creates. Bardick, a native Californian, is a self-taught woodworker who started in the craft at the age of 15, making picture frames for his artist father. Since 1989, he has worked in concert with representatives of Disneyland creating unusual theme display furniture, and his woodworking can be seen throughout the park.
Photo by Lynn Rybarczyk and Ed Suszynski, courtesy of San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association. |
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Craig Thibodeau E. Rinehart
Writing Desk
San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association Award - 3rd Place
Alder and Alaskan Yellow Cedar
A self-taught cabinetmaker influenced by the work of Krenov and Nakashima, Thibodeau prefers restraint in decoration in the pieces he builds. Allowing the beauty of the wood to show itself, most of his work is finish planed by hand and left natural or finished with shellac or tung oil. A mechanical engineer by trade, Thibodeau's biggest woodworking goal is to study someday under James Krenov at the College of the Redwoods.
Photo by Lynn Rybarczyk and Ed Suszynski, courtesy of San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association.
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Paul Henry
"Cromwell"
1st Place - Clocks
10 in. deep by 14 in. wide by 79 in. tall
White Oak, Walnut, Eucalyptus Burl Veneer and Bees'-wing Eucalyptus Veneer
Educated it the field of anthropology, Henry chose instead to pursue the scientific study of woodworking. Along with running a successful furnituremaking business in Carlsbad, Calif., he teaches a Furniture Design and History course at Palomar College and holds an appointment on the Commission for the Arts for the city of Encinitas. "Cromwell" is one of five pieces Henry built depicting notable figures in English history. For more of his work, see the back cover of Fine Woodworking #145.
Photo by Lynn Rybarczyk and Ed Suszynski, courtesy of San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association. |
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