John Niero - ICFF

Here's an excellent interview with a young furniture designer showing at the 2007 International Contemporary Furniture Fair.

The interview presents a very creative designer who plans on using the process of Rotational molding, which exposes us to a second manufacturing process available to furniture designers.

Our Contemporary Lingerie Cabinet is complete and you'll get your first look at here. The build had an excellent end result and needs its own post.

I'm back from vacation, a nice bareboat cruise through the Pacific Northwest, summer is ending and it time for a new peoject.

Enjoy this interview and look for the Lingerie finale and the start of a new project.

Neil

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

WOOD Magazine Featured Project

The cradle you see on the cover of the September 2007 issue of WOOD Magazine is my winning design from WOOD Magazine's  Build-a-Gift Contest.

Kevin Boyle and the editors at WOOD did a fabulous job. The magazine write-up is excellent, complete with full scale templates. A slide show produced by the editors is also availble for viewing, at the WOOD web-site.

The video we've produced here, goes through the design progression that lead to being the featurer project. As you continue to build, you will find you have designs at the ready.

Enjoy and please share in my excitement.

Neil

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Lingerie Cabinet Ep08 - Final Finishing

Back to our Contemporary Lingerie Cabinet and Webisode08. Here we've disassembled the case, labeled parts, final sanded and final finished to match our Finish Sample from Episode07.

It's a well executed episode that turns sample finiahing into reality.

Enjoy........

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Karn, Me and D.J. DePree

As most follow and look to Sam Maloof, James Krenov, or Nakashima for their readings and inspiration, I look to the ground breaking furniture manufacturer, DJ DePree who lives on through the firm he created; Herman Miller.

I'm very excited to present this interview with Karn Adams a Retail Development Specialist at Herman Miller and hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did.

D.J. DePree is our greatest furniture manufacturer.

Enjoy the history and answers that Karn so wonderfully provides.

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Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

ICFF - Aimee Less Interview02

Aimee less is a designer living in California. Her interview provides nuggets of information on design thought specific to her shell chair...The Derby.

Enjoy this interview on seating from the International Contemporary Furniture Fair.

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Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

LumberJocks - Thorsen Challenge Entry

Here's our entry in LumberJocks Thorsen Side table Challenge.
I know we were going to build it together but my time and the challenge deadline forced me to just go for it.
The objective of selecting this challenge at the Lumberjocks forum however, still remains the same..... to see other woodworkers work!!! You will witness that as I expected, excellent CREATIVITY occurred.
So now is the time to wonder over to Lumberjocks and have a look at the craftsmanship of fellow on-line woodworkers.

GO TO: LumberJocks

ICFF - L. Mackler Interview01

This is the first interview from the 2007 International Contemporary Furniture Fair held in NYC.

The interview begins with a short introduction and feel for the ICFF, how and why I selected Laurence Mackler, the interview, followed by a short encapsulation.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

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Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)