Furniture

Furniture Work

This page shows various personal furniture projects including chairs, desks and bedside tables.
The projects primarily utilize maple, however, some include cherry and madrone components.

Maple Custom Desk with Integrated Drawer

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Design Details

Chair and Desk Custom Set

This set of furniture was made from reclaimed maple that had fallen down and sat out in the elements, some of it for years before it was milled. I then flattened and fully dried the boards before beginning on the process of designing and constructing each piece.

With the goal of creating a matching desk and chair I took inspiration from the Katakana chair created by Sean Dare. Using maple in place of walnut I changed the support structure, designed an additional cross-piece for each side, and tweaked the angles for the seat and back support in an effort to achieve an upright but comfortable desk - chair.

Reclaimed Maple Bedside Tables

With the bedside tables I used more of the maple that had begun the spalting process. This meant that wood was less structurally sound. This resulted in a possibly over-reinforced shape in conjunction with cherry splines at the corner joints to strengthen the piece. The striking figure of some of the wood led me to “wrap” the wood around many of the corners so the wood grain is continuous even going through a 90 degree turn (see image below). I also built in a shelf 2/3 of the way up for storage and added small feet that the box sit on to lift it off the ground.

(see details below or in the process work folder at the top of the page)