2021 Show Gallery

This diminutive cabinet was design to be a place to keep tiny treasures and secrets.

The main woods are: satinwood (grid work), sapele (top), canary wood (back and ends of top), padouk (box), and izombie (cabinet doors). Woods for the drawer fronts and knobs include wenge, maple, bees wing satinwood, bubinga, sapele, canary wood, katalox, bloodwood, cocobolo and Philippine striped ebony. The rest of the drawers are made from white oak. It is named for Danny’s wife Carol.

Contemporary Category.

Not for sale.

This barstool combines a contemporary minimalist style with some Texan flair. Constructed out of black and white lumber, brass pipe and an upholstered cowhide seat.

Contemporary Category

$1850

After researching many professionals who were forced to transition from working from a traditional office setting to a home environment during the pandemic, their needs and wishes were incorporated into this design. This bureau table is constructed of Sapele as the primary wood. Tiger Maple and Tulip Poplar serve as the secondary wooden elements. Curly Sapele veneers are used on the back and side panels, and Pommele Sapele veneer is used in the table top. All inlay, stringing, and banding is Curly Cherry. All drawer bottoms are solid wood, lined with leather, and have leather drawer stops. All components of the table are finished with oil/varnish, super blonde shellac, and the table top has an additional topcoats of lacquer for durability and protection. Best efforts in design and craftsmanship were used to ensure a beautiful and functional piece that can be used and past down for generations.

Traditional Category

$9,000

I name all of my furniture and this piece is named “Brazos De Dios” (The Arms of God) after Texas’ longest and most famous river. I strive to build furniture with meaning and I truly feel this piece checks a lot of the boxes I was trying to accomplish.

This piece is my original design and is sized to fit several uses: Desk, Hall or Entry Table or a Sofa Table or because it’s beautiful from all sides a room divider.

The Legs are my original design made of solid Black Walnut. I wanted them strong yet graceful and I thought of a ballerina dancing on her toes when I designed them to fit my need.

The Front and the back have opposing bent lamination curves of black walnut framing black walnut burl adding interest and pleasing views of the back and the front from either side.

The right and left end panels feature a black walnut crotch with a unusual flame grain pattern that extends up from both sides extending and meeting in the middle of the marquetry on the top.

Creation of Adam marquetry on the top is made from a variety of woods (wenge, mahogany, two types of pear wood, maple, aspen, cherry, walnut, ebony and crotch walnut.

The drawer features a burl walnut front with hand cut dovetails and figured maple sides and a handmade one of a kind drawer pull also of burl walnut. Inside the drawer you will find a highly detailed marquetry of a mocking bird on a pecan tree.

30” high, 59.5” wide, 23” deep

Art Style

SOLD for 9,500

Sit or stand, short or tall, this desk is made for all! Our sit/stand desk combines the clean lines of mid-century modern design and smooth cherry hardwoods in a satiny oil urethane finish with the strength of steel. The hand powered lifting mechanism is built fully into the desk using a series of engineer gears and hidden steel reinforcement, adjusting the writing surface from sitting position to any standing height.

30.5” high, 48” wide, 23” deep

Writing surface adjusts from 23”

Contemporary Category

SOLD for $4,000

Designed to hold a record player and receiver with vinyl storage below. Inspired by my time studying boat building, the curve of the sides are reminiscent of a boat in plain view and the parquetry pattern, framed in the doors, recalls a nautical flag. The cabinet is made with shop sawn veneer, cherry for the exterior and curly maple for the interior, pulls are ebony. Finished with oil and wax.

$3,200

Contemporary Category

When we saw the veneer, we realized book matching the leaves would form butterfly wings, and that inspired this coffee table.  As the process of collaboration evolved, the whimsical idea of adding caterpillars emerged to signify the important transformational stages of the insect.  Interestingly, gluing the caterpillar marquetry strips to the solid wood bodies turned out to be the most challenging aspect of this project with a number of failures over several days.  The Roble veneer for the top reveals the wings and a Peony flower along with a riot of textures rarely seen in a burl. 

Veneers used: Roble, Imbuya Burl, Mahogany, Holly, Black and Yellow Dyed Poplar.  Cherry comprises the table frame and legs.  Plastic was used for caterpillar antennae.  Catalyzed lacquer finish.

Dimensions:  43” long x 38” wide x 17.5” high

Art Style

$4,000

The design for this mid-century modern desk was distilled from a number of art nouveau designs by the French and Belgian masters of the Fin de Siecle movement. The subtle curves and unconventional structural plan give it a lightness and elegance, while the use of geniuine pattern grade mahogany lends an aura of luxury. The single leaf of flat-cut Cuban mahogany on the top was cut in the 1970s. Such material is no longer commercially available.

Dimensions: 70”w, 26” d, 29” h

$11,000

Contemporary Category

This tall back rocking chair is made from local Texas black walnut, hickory spindles, and ebony pins/wedges. This is a contemporary Windsor style rocker designed by Curtis Buchanan an outstanding chair maker / instructor in Jonesborough TN whom I had the privilege to study with. Made almost entirely with hand tools this chair employs a wide array of wood working techniques: spliting / shaping stock for the spindles and crest, steam bending, wood turning, cylindrical and tapered mortise and tenons, hand carved seat / arms, French polish shellac finish.

$3600

Traditional Category