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Tambour Coffee Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Todd Plummer This innovative coffee table won an Excellence in Design award from Woodcraft Magazine at the 2007 Design in Wood exhibition organized by the San Diego Fine Woodworkers...

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Gardenia Sideboard

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Craig Thibodeau Thibodeau’s sideboard won the Best of Show, awarded by Fine Woodworking magazine for the 2007 Design in Wood exhibition organized by the San Diego Fine Woodworkers...

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"Eames" Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Seth Deysach This table was built to sit next to an original Eames lounge chair. Janet Rooney, of j rooney design, created the design to complement the mid-20th-century style of the...

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Newport Mahogany Tall Clock

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: John McAlister McAlister, the 2001 recipient of the Society of American Furniture Makers’ Cartouche Award for lifetime achievement, made this mahogany and poplar Newport clock for his...

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Hepplewhite Sideboard Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Chris Burtis While attending the North Bennet Street School in Boston, Burtis chose to make a project that incorporated techniques he wanted to learn--string inlaying, veneering, banding...

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Newport-Style Kneehole Desk

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Alan Turner This Newport-style kneehole desk is modeled after an original attributed to Edmund Townsend (circa 1760s) which is in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. As on...

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18th-Century-Inspired Linen Press

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Andy Rae After researching several 18th-century linen presses, including one notable cabinet that resides in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C., Rae...

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Decorative Pedestal Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Anthony Hayzen Hayzen's pedestal table serves as a canvas for his decorative veneer work. The six-sided pedestal is made of poplar, while the tabletop and base are made of mediumdensity...

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Honduras Mahogany Sideboard

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Pat Megowan While building this sideboard during a 12-week intensive course at The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine, Megowan grew so frustrated that he twice thought about...

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Philadelphia Cherry Tall Clock

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Richard Gies Gies had been honing his furniture-making skills for 25 years before tackling this tall case clock. To make the piece, a classic example of an 18thcentury...

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Comb-back Windsor Chair

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Fred Shindle This comb-back Windsor is based on the speaker's chair built for The Carpenters' Company, a trade guild, and used at the meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774 at...

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Mackintosh-inspired Desk

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Alan Dana Hall This Mackintosh-inspired Arts and Crafts desk is based on an original built in Scotland by Wylie & Lockhead (ca. 1900). The problem was getting a good-quality photograph of...

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Wheat Grass Cabinet

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Celine Schmidt The focal point of this cabinet-on-stand is the inlaid wheat leaves, which are set in the foreground of a repeating prairie sky created with straight-grained tulip poplar...

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French Tea Tables

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Kenneth Stover These tea tables have a dominant Louis XIV lineage, but Stover adapted the inlay in the tops directly from a music stand (circa 1770-75) attributed to noted 18thcentury...

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Butterfly Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Len Dougherty This fully veneered table with marquetry butterflies on top practically grows out of the ground with dark branches holding the tabletop canopy aloft. Photo: Len Dougherty

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Morning Glory Cabinet

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Len Dougherty As a life-long drawer and painter, Len Dougherty has no trouble capturing life-like images in the marquetry on his furniture. "I think an art background really helps with...

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Chippendale Pembroke Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Tom Witzig Tables in Albert Stack's The New Fine Points of Furniture and in a Master Class article by Eugene Landon ( Fine Woodworking #151 ) inspired Tom Witzig to create his own...

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Queen Anne Lowboy

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Tom Witzig A lowboy on the cover of Jeffrey Greene's book American Furniture of the 18th Century inspired this Queen Anne-style table by Tom Witzig. Witzig added personal touches...

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Kitchen Island

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Michael Brown Michael Brown's curvy kitchen island has rounded edges to add girth and decorative steel rails that bow out to give the spice racks room. The piece took about 80 hours to...

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Mirror with Drawers

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Gerald Curry Curry's mirror, with its pilasters and pediment, is a spoof, he says, of a Georgian mirror. He updates the form not only with lighthearted shapes and bright paint, but by...

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