| Celebrating the place where craftsmanship begins.
A workshop is much more than a physical place full of tools. It is the place where a woodworker imagines, designs, tries, fails and succeeds in making something beautiful out of wood. Some shops are used to earn a living, some to pass on the craft. In all shops new designs are forged, limits are tested, and art is created.
The Workshop:
- Is a highly visual look at more than 30 amazing workshops and the fascinating people who use them.
- Celebrates the wide variety of wood craft, providing points of inspiration and identification for anyone dreaming of becoming a woodworker.
- Uses the shops and visits to their owners/users to tell the story of why people are drawn to creative expression in wood.
Table of Contents
Introduction—The Workshop Legacy; 1. Backyard Simplicity: David Stiles; 2. Nature in the Rough: Jon Brooks; 3. Carving Delight: Jeffrey Cooper; 4. Furniture as Art: Michael Creed; 5. A World of Tiny Details: Jacques Vesery; 6. A Shop for Two: David and Michelle Holzapfel; 7. Time for Play: Barbara Butler; 8. Man with a Mission: Marc Adams; 9. A Century of Teaching Excellence: North Bennet Street School; 10. A Window in Time: Colonial Williamsburg; 11. An Inspired Shop for Kids: Richard Starr; 12. A Rural Teaching Tradition: Drew Langsner; 13. High-tech on the Waterfront: Douglas Green; 14. A Woodworking Legacy: Mira Nakashima-yarnall; 15. Making a Mark: Alan Bradstreet; 16. An American Garage Classic: Anna Carter; 17. Shaker with a Twist: Christian Becksvoort; 18. Life on a New Hampshire Hilltop: Tom Mclaughlin; 19. Keeping Arts and Crafts Alive: Kevin Rodel and Susan Mack; 20. A Country Character:
Jacob Cress; 21. Wyoming Mountain Retreat: Don Rawlings; 22. High Art in the High Desert: James Wiley; 23. A Shop Run Wild:
William Turner; 24. A Turner's Life: Don Stinson; 25. A Shop in Concert: Robert Abrams; 26. High Flyer: Loran Smith; 27. Master of Curves: Jere Osgood 28. Earth-berm Shop: Seth Rolland; 29. Reviving an Ontario Homestead: Michael Fortune; 30. High Precision, High Style: Scott Schmidt; 31. Machine Power: Stephen Cotter; 32. A Dane in California: Ejler Hjorth-westh; 33. Making a New Life: Randy Martin.
About the Author
Scott Gibson is a former editor at Fine Homebuilding, Fine Woodworking and Home Furniture magazines who now works as a freelance writer, editor and photographer from his home in southern Maine. A contributing editor to Fine Homebuilding, he writes about residential building, architecture and furniture for a number of publications. He is a long-time furniture maker whose work has appeared in Fine Woodworking. |
