DEPARTMENT OF TANGENTS
Zlomke Furniture Then and Now
I own an ashtray and a yardstick, promotional products of the sort given away by small businesses when I was a boy in the 1950’s, which I acquired from a family source some time later. They are important to me because they came from my Grandpa George’s furniture...
Sentiment
I took some display pieces down to San Diego the other day, where their other design parent lives and works. She is going to see if she can place them in a showroom in her market area. This was the first time she had seen these particular pieces, if you don’t count...
Art and Experience
I was working on a design for a trestle table last month, trying to improve the base structurally, when before my eyes a perfectly utilitarian base changed into a pair of clown feet. I stopped working on the design, assuming that I had gone off the deep end in some...
A Furniture Maker’s Blog
I have made wood furniture for more than thirty years. Although woodworking was my full-time occupation all through the 1980’s, in those early days I never had occasion to write anything about it beyond an occasional bit of advertising copy. Now, however, I find that...