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Corner Sideboard
Made in Honduras Mahogany to fit in a corner, which was the ONLY place in this small apartment for a serving piece. The wings open up for serving Full inlay, and a curved door with full veneering. |
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Desk and Bookcase
This piece represents about three different stylistic influences, just the way the makers in the 18th Century worked - borrowing
ideas from each other and synthesizing a new form. The interior is from New England, with blocked drawer and door fronts, the base is typical of Philadelphia, the top is a flat-top design with sculpted door panels reminiscent of the South. |
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Highboy
In Mahogany, with cabriole legs, pad feet, carved shell center drawer, open arched pediment, turned finials. We let our customers wander through our books and photos and then we combine whatever details they fancy. |
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Carved Huntboard
We built this based on a center drawer that fit the customer's placemats. Then we designed the rest to fit. The space to the right and left of the drawer was too big and cried out for some detail, which we furnished in the form of carved sunbursts. |
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Lowboy #1
A nice early Philadelphia lowboy, with trifid feet, carved center drawer, carved shells on the knees, carved volutes on the knee blocks, quarter columns, and pinched corners on the top. Whew! |
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Lowboy #2
Carved drawer detail. |
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Lowboy #3
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Lowboy #4
Leg and quarter column detail. |
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Copycats
We made the finished chair on the right as part of a set, and then had to make another set because the customer had two daughters, and they had begun to quarrel over who was going to get the original set. Far be it from me to argue with that logic! |
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Restoration
This is a nice early 19th Century NJ desk and bookcase that had lost its doors. We made new ones, matching the detail of the rest of the piece, and doing a decent amount of restoration work while we were at it. |
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Display Case #1
An oak case made to display a ship model, with some neat Dutch colored glass "portholes" below it (see detail). |
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Display Case #2
Detail showing the colored glass "portholes". Very nautical. For a NJ Shore house. ("Shore" is New Jerseyese for "beach".) |
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Tall Clock
A compendium of styles, representing Newport, Philadelphia, etc., with carved rosettes on the swan's neck hood, shell-carved waist door, inlaid bottom panel, ogee bracket feet. |
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Restored Desk-and-Bookcase
This arrived at our shop in baskets from another shop that couldn't fix it. The door panels had shrunk and warped out of their frames. The drawers had disintegrated, etc. We saved the old thing from certain death. |
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