by LongGrainFurniture | Oct 10, 2019
Untitled (maple bowl with padauk stroke), 2019 The most exciting thing about graphic bowls like this one is watching the curves emerge as I carve the bowl from a solid block. It’s like calculus, where you transform a function and curves develop where before...
by LongGrainFurniture | Sep 18, 2019
Madman in the Mountain, 2018 Wood, acrylic sheet, wire, plastic birds, pigmented finish 38″ x 37″ x 37″ $2490 Not a...
by LongGrainFurniture | Sep 18, 2019
Painted Platters, 2019 Mixed media on wood Various dimensions up to 20″ diameter $285 each I believe in making things as well as I can, unless there is a reason not to. Within the craft of woodturning, this can lead to very precise, very elegant forms with...
by LongGrainFurniture | Sep 18, 2019
Hexagon Beverage Trays, 2018 Wood, pigmented finishes, gold leaf (on two of them), and clear finish 3″ x 19″ x 19″ or 3″ x 16″ x 20″ $325 each NOTE: Both pink ones are now SOLD. The blue one, the off-white one with a diamond, and...
by LongGrainFurniture | Jun 23, 2018
Bow Legged Sofa Table One of the sources I look to for inspiration is traditional Chinese furniture. A common detail is the table leg that bows outward, with a toe that turns back in. This combination creates a sense of heaviness, yet very lightly supported....
by LongGrainFurniture | Jun 20, 2018
Stitched Elliptical Coffee Table Two-dimensionally, the top of this table has a loose, intuitive composition where my interventions just fit nicely within the flowing natural grain of the wood. Three-dimensionally, it demanded some balance to this softness: I gave it...
by LongGrainFurniture | Nov 4, 2017
y=6x^2 Mathematics are at the core of good design through the ages, and the modernism of the mid-20th Century was no exception. This coffee table uses a strict parabolic equation to arrive at a form popular then, shining a light on modern inspirations. To freshen it...
by LongGrainFurniture | Apr 2, 2017
Colonnade The one inescapable fact of this slab of maple is its dramatic curve. Sixteen legs line the path. This bench leads Modernism into a place it hasn’t been, and I’d love to see where it can take your home. Available....
by LongGrainFurniture | Mar 27, 2017
The Rule of Thirds Let it stand alone or use it as a focal point for a handful of special objects. The horizontal members are a matched pair of local Nebraska river birch, sustainably harvested and processed, and spalted for that great organic “ink line”...
by LongGrainFurniture | Jan 16, 2017
Triskelion Coffee Table Named for the three-legged geometric figure that appears so often in Celtic imagery and elsewhere, this is the Triskelion Coffee Table. It’s built with very tight-grained old-growth reclaimed cedar beams (really gorgeous and special...
