by LongGrainFurniture | Apr 2, 2017
On the Crimson Horizon Presenting a bold splash of crimson on a reserved landscape, this bench is just the thing to complete the color story in an elegant, modern room. The top is a bookmatched pair of rift-cut white oak boards, so the grain is mirrored, linear, and...
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 28, 2017
Jack the Fool Botanical and ovoid forms, storybook allusions, and certain catastrophe collide in these playful compositions. Which one suits you better, and which one for your partner? This work was SOLD in the 2017 Benefit Auction for the Bemis Center for...
by LongGrainFurniture | Mar 27, 2017
Slouch Poor posture, candleheaded man, sad trombones. I’ve been exploring the sculptural potential of carving on a lathe, with an offset turning technique that’s dramatic to see and frankly a little scary. The outcome here is anthropomorphically emotive,...
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...
by LongGrainFurniture | Jan 16, 2017
Nefertiti candlestick (large walnut) Invoking the elegance and dignity of Ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, this candlestick takes its inspiration from her famous bust. It was sold to an Omaha collector in support of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, as part of...
by LongGrainFurniture | Jan 16, 2017
Ash slab bench/coffee table Deceptively simple in form, the allusions here don’t stop unfolding. There’s landscape. There’s structure. There’s entropy and intervention, as well as so many other ideas wrapped up inside. It’s going to look...
by LongGrainFurniture | Aug 3, 2016
#Hashtag coffee tables These quartersawn white oak coffee tables bring lightness and clean geometry. True and honest joinery shines in the details. They’ll rise proudly from that awesome rug you just bought, and complement a chic, modern sofa. There are just two...
by LongGrainFurniture | Aug 12, 2016
5 Degree Parsons Dining Table At first glance an ordinary parsons table, in fact the angles of this table are all pushed in toward the center by five degrees, a bit like my 5 Degree Bench from years ago. Here the effect is a perspective that seems a little wrong. The...
