ADVANCED FURNITURE MAKING
Donna’s Cabinet by John Reed Fox, cherry, Port Orford cedar, paper (39.5"x15"x32"h), 2006
Phoebe Cabinet by Craig Stevens, redgum and t'zalam with marquetry (21"x10"x52"h), 2005
John Fox & Craig Stevens
September 24 – October 5
This course is for more experienced intermediate and advanced furniture makers. John and Craig share their separate (and complementary) methods of work, approaches to design, and extraordinary expertise with hand tools. Each participant creates a piece of furniture with the goals of improving their design process, perfecting their hand and machine skills, and making furniture which is a singular and personal expression of the individual.
Topics of consideration include hand-planed surfaces, tuning and using Japanese and wooden planes, the challenges of making and fitting drawers and doors, and working with solid wood and sawn veneers, as well as design evolution, organizing your work, and making a living with one-of-a-kind furniture.
John Fox is an Acton, Massachusetts furniture maker who has mastered Japanese hand tools over twenty-five years of use. He exhibits his work nationally in such prestigious venues as the Smithsonian, Philadelphia, and Baltimore craft shows. John’s work was featured in the Custom Furniture Source Book (Taunton Press, 2001), he was a Niche Awards Finalist in 2005, and he received the Award of Excellence at the American Craft Council Baltimore show in 2001.
Craig Vandall Stevens designs and builds one-of-a-kind furniture for exhibition and commission at his studio in Sunbury, Ohio. He studied furniture making with James Krenov at the College of the Redwoods, graduating in 1993. Craig has written four books for Schiffer Publishing on the subjects of chip carving, marquetry, and coffee tables. He exhibits across the U.S. and in Japan and has received several awards, including American Woodworker’s 1998 Excellence in Craftsmanship award and an “Individual Artist Fellowship” from the Ohio Arts Council. He has also been featured on the Home & Garden Television program, “Modern Masters.”