DESIGN and CRAFTSMANSHIP
Flame Table by Ross Day, jatoba and figured western maple (56.5"x13/5"x29.5"), 2005
Bed by Tim Rousseau, curly soft maple and mahogany, 2003
Ross Day & Tim Rousseau
August 16 – 27
Participants explore new skills through the process of designing and building furniture, whether solid-wood or veneered. Ross and Tim encourage students to engage in thorough design processes, which include sketching, scale drawings, and full-scale layouts. They also direct emphasis to subtle details such as unique door and drawer pulls, inlay, reveals, and the graphics of wood grain. Instruction covers joinery with hand tools and machines, use of resawn and commercial veneers, curved work including bent lamination, pattern shaping with a router, and much more. Projects should be modestly scaled and may include virtually any furniture form except chairs.
Ross Day runs a furniture design studio in Poulsbo, Washington and teaches furniture design at Bellevue College. He studied under James Krenov at the College of the Redwoods from 1986–87 and has shown at Northwest Fine Woodworking, in Seattle and Pritam & Eames, in Easthampton, New York. Publications include a profile in Woodwork (December, 2008), articles for Fine Woodworking, and inclusion in With Wakened Hands by James Krenov (Cambium Press, 2000), In the Modern Style (Taunton Press, 2002), and Multiplicity (The Furniture Society, 2008).
Tim Rousseau divides his time between building furniture on commission in Appleton, Maine and teaching at the Center. He took the Center’s Twelve-week Intensive in 1998 and then spent two years working in a multifaceted group shop in Hoboken, New Jersey before returning to Maine to set up his own business. In 2002 and 2003 he served as the Center’s Resident Instructor, running the Workshop Program. Since then, he has been a lead instructor for the Twelve-week Intensive and has taught the chair project for the Comprehensive. His furniture is shown throughout the Northeast, and his 13-part video series, “Making a Small Cabinet,” is featured on www.finewoodworking.com.