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Maker Spotlight on November 16, 2012
Do reclaimed wood projects conjure images of antique furniture or traditional styles?
They don’t have to.
CustomMade artisan Avi Mossiyov of Hand Made Furniture Design can create pieces in contemporary, modernist, and industrial styles from reclaimed century-old hardwood timber.
Part of reclaimed wood’s allure is the special beauty and visual character of the aged materials. [...]
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in Custom Inspiration,
For Customers on July 28, 2012
The diaspora of reclaimed materials from the world famous Coney Island park in Brooklyn, NY, was the subject of a recent article in the New York Times. Over the past few years, discarded Brazilian ipe wood from the iconic Coney Island boardwalk, sometimes literally rescued from dumpsters, writes Liz Robbins, has been used to create [...]
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Our Favorite Custom Finds on July 10, 2012
Where can you have custom pipes created to reflect the character of the wood and the customer? CustomMade artisan Stephen Muscarella of Left to Right Furniture of Brooklyn, NY, specializes in creating beautiful furniture and other pieces from reclaimed wood and other repurposed materials rich with personality and history. He’s also branched out, “more for [...]
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The Pro Shop on March 5, 2012
Where can you find hope for American manufacturing? In craftsmanship and custom manufacturing, according to Planet Money co-host and co-founder Adam Davidson. In his story, “A Revival in American Manufacturing, Led By Brooklyn Foodies,” he looks at two producers for niche markets, artisanal beef jerky and custom springs, notices how even major mass-production based companies [...]
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in Custom Inspiration,
For Customers on January 29, 2012
Each piece of furniture in the Homestead Series by Lyndon Furniture, like this Homestead reclaimed lumber sideboard, not only tells a story but also has a history. Shawn Straffin writes:
About 250 years ago New England was in its infancy. The people who settled our country were undaunted by the task of establishing [...]
Posted by Pedro
in Custom Inspiration,
For Customers on November 13, 2011
What do this traditional style cherry jukebox by Lost Canyon Woodworks …
and this Victorian town house in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY have in common?
They both have a surprise on the inside.
Features such as the solid cherry wood, hand carved lions, flashing lights, stained glass, and a model of an old radio station [...]
Posted by Pedro
in Custom Inspiration,
For Customers on September 30, 2011
If you’re entering the restaurant business, you most likely have a very good idea of the cuisine you wish to offer and a pretty good idea of the ambience you want to establish. However, unless you’re a polymath, you’re probably not a woodworker, custom furniture maker, or stained glass artisan, but the furniture and décor [...]
Posted by Pedro
in Custom Inspiration,
For Customers on May 26, 2011
In a manner of speaking, a skyline is the face of a city, and commissioned sculptures and paintings of cityscapes as familiar silhouettes of buildings and landmarks are like formal portraits. Faces reveal a great deal, but cities, like people, have features and qualities that might escape the perspective of a formal portrait, characteristics that [...]
Posted by Pedro
in Custom Inspiration,
For Customers on April 6, 2011
In contemporary society, so many of our most recognizable images are of products both commercial and ephemeral. None more so that popular food items. CustomMade artisan Robin Antar of Antar Studios Inc. creates custom sculpture that recasts “pop food” into something permanent. In her series of sculptures, “Things We Eat, But Can’t,” Ms. Antar creates [...]
Posted by Pedro
in Custom Inspiration,
For Customers on January 31, 2011
What does all custom furniture have in common? Every custom item has a unique story behind it: the story of the inspiration, commission, and construction of exactly one and only one made-to-order piece. Custom furniture made from reclaimed wood or other recycled materials also has “pre-histories:” stories of past lives and uses that are sometimes [...]
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