Posts Tagged ‘ craftsman ’

The Idyllic Woodworking Life of Grant Vaughan

April 28, 2009
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The Idyllic Woodworking Life of Grant Vaughan

BY TERRY MARTIN Despite the notion that the woodworking life is very romantic, full of sweet-smelling plane shavings in a peaceful workshop, for many the reality is dusty, noisy and sometimes tedious work. Yet many of us became woodworkers in pursuit of an idealized lifestyle. When I recently visited Grant Vaughan, I was impressed...

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The Pair of Shoes

April 28, 2009
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The Pair of Shoes

BY TOSHIO ODATE PHOTOS: LAURE OLENDER Toshio Odate apprenticed as a young woodworker in Japan during the 1940s. He moved to New York in 1958, became a renowned sculptor, and was instrumental in introducing America and Europe to the Japanese craft tradition, publishing the seminal work Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit, and Use...

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Seeing the World with David Upfill-Brown

April 27, 2009
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Seeing the World with David Upfill-Brown

BY PATRICK DOWNES • PHOTOS BY DAVID UPFILL-BROWN It’s impossible to fall asleep while David Upfill-Brown talks. At the very first word, you’ll cock your head like a terrier, trying for your life to figure out his accent. Born in South Africa and raised in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, David has lived across the English-speaking...

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Ross Day: Furnituremaker

March 4, 2009
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Ross Day: Furnituremaker

Ross Day Gets Ripe BY JONATHAN BINZEN Ross Day grew up in a scattering of towns out West in the ’50s and ’60s and early ’70s. From Denver, where he was born in 1954, his family moved to Pueblo, Colorado, then to Boise, Idaho, and, when Ross was ten, on to Seattle, where they...

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