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Custom “Hands of Time” – Casting Your Hands In Lead Crystal – Part II

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on May 4, 2011

Bernie Huebner and Lucie Boucher of Waterville, Maine are known for their beautiful fine art glass work, brilliant fused glasscapes that portray luminous scenes and cast colorful shadows throughout a space. But their company Stone Ridge Glass also specializes in a unique kind of custom memory making: photorealistic cast glass hands that capture the owners [...]

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Custom “Hands of Time” – Meeting the Artists Behind Stone Ridge Glass – Part I

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on May 2, 2011

CustomMade artists Lucie Boucher and Bernie Huebner embody, as they say, “a fusing of restless minds” through creative collaboration and, of course, fused glass! Lucie and Bernie believe that the only relevant bio to describe the man and the woman behind Stone Ridge Glass is their joint bio.  A formal résumé would list five advanced [...]

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Out-of-this-world glass hardware by Out of The Blue Design Studio

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on April 1, 2011

Out of the Blue Design Studio was founded in 2000 by Alex Matheson, a long time collector of Art Glass and manufacturer of commercial locks and decorative hardware. The concept of using Studio Art Glass with decorative hardware came as a result of a personal home renovation project Alex was doing on a bathroom. After making [...]

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Play that funky music, Batson Guitar Co.!

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

Today we visit the shop of Cory and Grant Batson of Batson Guitars – self-proclaimed luthiers, they’re a couple of brothers making sweet custom, handmade guitars and other stringed instruments. The Batson’s have been featured in Acoutic Guitar Daily and are known in the bizz as true custom rock stars.

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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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Dolphins in the kitchen? Lynne Meade Porcelain can do anything

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on December 17, 2010

Lynne Meade of Lynne Meade Porcelain in Oakland, CA was recently contacted by a client who hoped to bring her favorite ocean creature into her kitchen. Lynne shares the client’s request and walks us through the one-on-one process of ordering custom made ceramics – from trying out a design in your home for a few [...]

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John Herbert and the Boston Furniture Collaborative: WOW

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, For Makers, Maker Spotlight, The Wide World of Custom Making on December 14, 2010

What’s the first word that comes to mind when you look at this clock?

At a recent juried furniture show, maker John Herbert of the Boston Furniture Collaborative found that the crowd had a pretty unanimous reaction:

“I would stand in my little booth, watching people as they walked around, and people would stop [...]

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Brian Brace’s custom dining set is right at home

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on December 6, 2010

A few weeks back we heard from happy custom-customer Susan who absolutely loves her new custom dining chairs.

Being the curious custom connoisseurs that we are, we decided to follow up with maker Brian Brace of Black Mountain, North Carolina to get the inside scoop on the chairs so you, too, can see what it’s [...]

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And the Winner is…

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on November 16, 2010

The winner of the CustomMade Artosam contest was announced last night.   This was our first contest EVER and we received an incredible number of responses from custom makers of all stripes.  It was a close competition. The submissions spanned a wide range of types of custom projects, each entry was truly unique, and the overall [...]

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Newest Artisans of the Week

Posted by Seth in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on November 16, 2010

Help me welcome to some of the newest CustomMade members for this week!

David Iepson of Working Designs and Installations LLC

“This hand carved and very dimensional sign was carved from foam and hard coated. Vacuumed formed leafs and air brushing completed the piece. Custom projects with a lot of imagination! [...]

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