This May I will be teaching for the first time at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking for the first time. The school is 12 miles south of Indianapolis and is the "Largest Woodworking School in North America". The great number of classes offered, the size of the shops and facilities, and Marc and his … Continue reading Teaching at MASW
Month: January 2016
Tea Table Pairs Again
A comment to this site asked that I reference the locations of the possible pairs of tea tables I illustrated here. I do that here and include links and books that illustrate them. On the left: Sold January, 2015, Keno Auctions, New York seen here. On the right: Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art … Continue reading Tea Table Pairs Again
More From New York
A chest-on-chest in the Americana sale at Christie’s last week, seen here, has a single shell-carved drawer in the top tier that is a bit of a twist on the common practice of having the grasses on the sides of the shell carved separately and applied to the face of the drawer. On this drawer, … Continue reading More From New York
Mount Pleasant Closed
The 250th anniversary of the completion of the construction of Mount Pleasant in 2015 turned out not to be auspicious. Previously open for tours the entire year, these days Mount Pleasant closes in January and reopens for tours of the interiors April 1st. This year that will not happen. According to the Philadelphia Museum of … Continue reading Mount Pleasant Closed
The Potts Family High Chest
The two previous posts illustrated images of the restored elements of Potts family high chest. Below are two images of original carving on the lower rail, legs, corner columns, and the shell drawer (the applied grasses on the drawer are Jesse Bair restorations). Soon after the the high chest was purchased by the Schorsch's in … Continue reading The Potts Family High Chest
In Proportion to the Trouble 