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Readers Gallery
From Fine Woodworking Issue #154
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Philip A. Houck
This card table (18 in. deep by 36 in. wide by 28 in. tall) is based on photographs from Albert Sack's The Fine Points of Furniture (out of print) and overall dimensions found in Benjamin Hewitt's The Work of Many Hands: Card tables in Federal America, 1790-1820 (out of print). Houck worked more than 500 hours to complete the table, which is made of mahogany, holly, ebony and pine and has a padded shellac finish. Photo by Lance Patterson
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Barry Daggett
This storage unit (17 in. deep by 28 in. wide by 75 in. tall) is made of spalted beech, walnut, maple and ebony. Daggett came up with the design in 1996 when he was a furniture-design student at the University of New Hampshire; however, he did not build the piece until late 1999, when he received some spalted beech from a friend who was clearing land in the Berkshires. Incorporated into the door construction are fiberglass rice-paper inserts. The unit has a Waterlox oil finish. |
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Jerry Cox
Cox designed this bedroom entertainment unit (27 in. deep by 67 in. wide by 87 in. tall) for a client who had lived in Japan for five years. Craig Vincent built the piece out of solid birch with redwood burl veneer on the drawer fronts and lower shelf. Vincent used dyed bamboo for the door inserts and side panels. The unit has an eight-step lacquer finish, which was applied by Larry Levleit.
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Steve Orton
Following the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe maxim of "less is more," Orton designed this demilune table (16 in. deep by 32 in. wide by 34 in. tall) to fill a space in his dining room. The table is constructed of solid cherry with a rosewood inlay, and the finish is tung oil, lacquer and black wax.
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