Monthly Archive: March, 2011

Logistics

We have just finished creating the millwork for two 18th century rooms, to be installed in a very modern Brooklyn waterfront condo.  The distance between the shop in Lancaster and Brooklyn, means that everything has to be made to fit and measurements can’t be checked everyday.

This is nerve-wracking.  It has to be right the first time and the logistics in transport and installation are daunting for a small country woodshop.

This is an interesting world…a traveling client, with his own specific taste.  Pair that with an exacting architect and you have PRESSURE!

That is why this is our last project like this .  We are getting too old for this shit.

In Canada, we look forward to small projects, nearby , and hope that our only distraction is the local moose.

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March 29th, 2011 Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off

Less Is More/After The Purging

For many years, we lived in a big house with big furniture that came from having big ideas about big dinner parties.  At the shop we did big furniture projects for clients with big pockets and big visions.

We have learned in this economic downturn that we need less and that less has proven more in rethinking values material and personal.

We are now furniture makers without furniture.  As we approach building pieces for our new Canadian house, we are thinking about subtlety, clean natural lines and playful quirks of geometry.  We hope that people that come to our new house will see something new and unexpected…same people, new vision.  We anticipate a limited choice of woods and cliental where we are moving, but look forward to the challenge of designing within these constraints.

BIG CHAIR

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March 27th, 2011 Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off

Personal Hiatus

Dining Room

We barely had enough time to eat and drink during the festive Christmas holidays due to a sudden interest in the selling of our house.  It did indeed sell and we had three weeks to vacate our lives of 15 years.  Making this all possible was the generous offer of a good friend to live in a beautiful farmhouse on their property.This is where we live now, amid the wind, the vistas , grazing horses and fox.

Now that the dust has settled, we are starting to experience the sadness of giving up a house that was ours creatively from beginning to end.  It was our personal masterpiece, which we were fortunate to live in for a long time.  Although our new space is magical, we are looking forward to embracing a blank canvas up north to begin the creative process again.

Although we left reluctantly it was time to go, time for reinvention and very apparent that an opportunity was presenting itself to do just that. We grabbed it.

Business as usual at our old location, at least for a couple of years, while we finish our house project in Canada.

It will take time and thoughtful consideration to imagine our new space, it being so different from the old in terms of size, proportion, light and relationship to nature.  That relationship will be the most exciting thing and one that we have not had in our lives for quite a while.  The farm is providing us with a good transition.

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March 13th, 2011 Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

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