VLK Dining Table
VLK Dining Table
The VLK Dining Table is handmade and crafted in solid American Walnut. The is Length 72″ x Width 37.5″ and extends to 94″ with two (2) 11″ fillers.
Tag: Artisan Furniture
Mud Room Cabinets for Historical House
Mud Room Cabinets for a Historical House
Mud room cabinets for a historic house in Traverse City, Michigan. The pair of painted cabinets flank a new door and sidelights that I designed for the project. The renovation included an entirely new back porch entrance and mud room.
Details for the cabinets were developed from existing woodwork in the house.
Ekocite Architecture of Royal Oak MI developed the plan and exterior details based on the existing structure. The door, sidelights, and the cabinets were developed from the beautiful existing moulding details in this important Victorian house. Built-in 1900 for the founder of one Traverse Citys first banks, the house took seven (7) years to complete.
Plain English Style Kitchen
Plain English Style Kitchen
Handmade Plain English Style Kitchen for European couple for a new home on Glenn Lake in Northern Michigan. Jack Cline, Architect, Traverse City, Jim Cooley of Cooley Contracting, Builder, Traverse City. Chad Womack, Cabinetmaker.
Finish is English Farrow and Ball Green Smoke #47 in Estate Eggshell sheen. The countertops are solid White Oak. The drawers are crafted in Red Oak and fitted with painted drawer bottoms in Green Smoke.
Cabinet Featuring Integrated Desk Old Mission Peninsula
Cabinet Featuring Integrated Desk
The cabinet featuring integrated desk was designed for my client who owns a wonderful mid-century modern house on Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City, Michigan.
The cabinet features a painted bookcase with three adjustable shelves and a recessed pigeon hole unit for the desk. The solid cherry pigeon hole is fitted with a natural white maple partitions and illuminated with cobalt blue glass back panels. The cherry partners desk is fitted with a traditional map style drawer in African Wenge that functions as a “pencil drawer” on both sides of the top.
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Chair Model No. DRB15
Chair Model No. DRB 15
Chair Model No. DRB 15 is composed of American Cherry solids with African Wenge back splat and polished Stainless Steel banding. The hand-tied traditional sprung seat is shown in fine Cognac brown hide. The curved cherry backrest was glued up to the required thickness and band-sawed on a taper. The backrest blank was also positioned on a compound angle on the saw table so that no glue line was visible on the face, disrupting the pattern of the wood grain. The back splat is veneered in beautiful dark African Wenge and traced with a banding of polished stainless steel. Polished stainless hex key fasteners are used as both functional and decorative elements. The tapered Cherry back legs are splayed on a compound angle to give the chair an elegant stance.
7 Drawer Desk in Walnut & Parchment
7 Drawer Desk in Walnut & Parchment.
The 7 Drawer Desk in Walnut & Parchment was inspired by the interest in modern furniture from France in 1930’s the 1950’s. This period of design is frequently described as “40 French Furniture”. In the late 1990’s when I was V.
P. of Design and Product Development at John Widdicomb Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I produced a number of furniture collections based on this wonderful period of design. Designers of the 40’s period looked back on the opulent French Louis XVI Cabinet Makers and reduced the bronze ornamentation but kept the silhouette. The French designer Jean-Michael Frank is the acknowledged master of the distillation of 18c French interior design. Frank used parchment not only furniture but covered entire rooms with square panels wrapped with the skin. The 7 Drawer Desk is constructed of solid American Walnut with Parchment covering veneered panels. The walnut top is fitted with a recessed parchment panel that has a glass panel over the top for protection. The Greek key style pedestals are cantilevered over the open plinth. Polished Stainless Steel drawer pulls are graduated in size on the drawer fronts. The left pedestal features a unique drawer that functions as a small lock box and is illustrated below.
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