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For Your Modest Secrets and Potent Loot: Sculptural Furniture and Turned Vessels by Hudson Design Studios

Posted by Pedro in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on July 12, 2012

What would you place inside the Valentine Cabinet by Hudson Design Studios?

CustomMade artisan Kerry Hudson has some suggestions for both drawers of this exotic work:

Things to store in the top drawer: good intentions; a lock of your partner’s hair; a love letter gone yellow with age; your forebear’s locket; or the [...]

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Translucent Wooden Shades for Custom Lamps

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on September 10, 2011

What words do you associate with wood? Strength, durability, natural, beautiful.  Did you know wood can also be translucent?  CustomMade artisans can create shades for custom lamps using veneers, and some unusual properties of wood, that literally illuminate the figuring and grain patterns when you turn on the light.  Take a look at some custom [...]

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Extraordinary Custom Coffee Tables from Ordinary Forms

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on June 23, 2011

Where will you find inspiration for your next custom furniture project?

Exotic or traditional designs can be appropriated for new purposes.  Some inventive pieces have been necessitated by unique and unusual spaces.  The beauty and history of reclaimed wood and other materials can spark an artistic and ethical impulse to create something special.

And in [...]

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Hammer and Nails – Terry Kelly’s Linen Cabinet

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on February 21, 2011

I love building Windsor chairs.  I think they are really the peak of the craft.  You start, with my Windsors anyway, with a log and a pine plank, and end up with a chair.   All the parts are hand split to ensure the strength is not lost.  Even the blanks for the hand turned legs [...]

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Terry Kelly Furniture and the Art of the Philly Comb Back Chair

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on February 15, 2011

Terry Kelly joins us today from Mapleton, Maine to tell/give a glimpse into the world of Windsor Chair building by getting to know a special Windsor – the Philly Comb Back chair.

This is the chair that really got me thinking that I wanted to build Windsors.  It is based squarely on one [...]

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