Made to span the entirety of an oblique wall, this 10' Shaker-style sideboard was designed to serve as both storage and retail display space (and match the studio's shelving/brackets, made from the same stock).
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The intention was to create a piece that, like the best Shaker furniture, is both "high-minded" and unpretentious: vernacular in its use of different softwoods (e.g. spruce, pine and fir replete with knots/blemishes betraying their original use as sheathing), simple rectilinear form and lack of ornamentation, while still refined and elegant: gracefully proportioned, with petite and gently contoured pulls, extremely narrow dovetail pins and subtly straight-tapered legs.

The top is a single piece of pine, nearly 20" wide and over 16' long before milling. Knots and nail holes were patched with veneers cut from remaining scraps, as were dovetail keys stabilizing checking at either end. Thicker patches spliced along the edges are tongue and groove.
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The top is attached with screws, fixed in the front and slotted in the back to allow seasonal movement.

The legs, rails and stretchers are joined with pegged/draw-bored mortise and tenons; drawers are joined with hand-cut dovetails, and individually turned apple pulls are wedged/pegged into recesses bored in the drawer fronts.

The bottom platform is composed of tongue and groove pieces of random widths--made from offcuts and scraps left over after milling the rest of the piece housed in a dado in the stretchers; the stretchers are held together by dovetailed ties along the underside.

The moulding is coped to wrap around the legs, which sit 1/4" proud of the side rails.

Designed as a main workbench for processing and arranging cut flowers.
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The legs were milled from salvaged barn beams, as stock large enough to accommodate the final sculpted profile (16/4"+) was otherwise unobtainable locally.

To ensure the top stays flat, breadboard ends are attached via three pegged tenons, the outer two slotted to allow the pegs to move with the top as it expands and contracts seasonally.

The legs terminate in large tenons that fit in mortises tapered along their length and width to accommodate five wedges: a single wedge expanding it across the grain, and two wedges on either side expanding it along the grain (as wedged joints are traditionally oriented). Holes were bored at the base of the tenons to relieve the considerable strain created by the relatively large wedges pushing in two directions.

The feet, legs and stretchers are connected by doubly pegged mortise and tenon joints.

The entire base was shaped and sculpted by hand.

Rosewood keys stabilize the fissure in the maple top.

Base feet attach to the stretcher by half lap joint; each leg attaches to the stretcher with an oblique mitered mortise and tenon,

Legs are tenoned into cleats with elongated holes on each side to allow seasonal movement of the top.

The entire base was scultped by hand.

Planed and jointed entirely by hand, this table was made from one 6/4 cherry board ~15" x 10'. In lieu of resawing such wide stock for bookmatched top and legs, the piece was divided along its length to maximize grain continuity.
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To stabilize the ~11/16" top, each leg comprises two halves with sliding dovetails that taper toward the center. Mortises fit corresponding rabbets cut around the stretcher on all four sides, ensuring any gaps due to seasonal movement are always concealed

Tenons are draw-bored with square pegs; both pegs and tenons are left proud and sculpted a la Greene and Greene.

Staggered aprons keep the extremely narrow base rigid, and show deference to the live edge top.

After a set from e15 no longer in production. Nightstand includes a frame and panel back, solid drawer front and solid maple drawer box joined with hand-cut dovetails, sliding on rosewood runners.
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Bed hardware is mortised into the ends of the rails, headboard and footboard, and is thus completely invisible when assembled.

Metalwork by Hosford & Co.

For Literati bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI, designed to serve as a display shelf-cum-receiving/work area, given a paucity of space. This is a traditional-style bookcase with an added pull-out desk surface.

The case is joined at the top with large half-blind dovetails, the middle shelf fixed with tapered sliding dovetails.
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The traditional "sawtooth" shelf standards are also back-beveled, as are the mating trapezoidal cleats that support the remaining movable shelves; this ensures they remain firmly seated and bear against the solid wood sides.

Upper and lower frames bound tongue-and-groove back panels.
Stained, shellacked, glazed and top-coated to match existing store shelves.