Going, going… gone!

The Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, NY is embarking on an ambitious project – the construction of “The Studios” a new building dedicated to the study of art and music! Learn more here: www.randolphschoolgiving.org

Come to their art auction,”Expansion”, on April 30th at The Howland Center in Beacon to help raise funds! Very proud to have contributed one of our black walnut X-tables to the live auction.

Hope to see you there!

(Thanks to Ethan Harrison for the fantastic photo and to Daniel Weise for all around coordination and putting together this lovely postcard!)

 

MADE FOR YOU at the Dorsky Museum

Come up to New Paltz, NY to see our piece in this fun group show of design work at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY.  Thank you to Jennifer Scanlan for curating such a diverse and interesting show…!

Details:

Made For You: New Directions in Contemporary Design
February 6 – July 10, 2016
Morgan Anderson and Corridor Galleries

Opening reception Saturday, February 6, 2016, 5–7 pm

WORK:SHOP Holiday Market 2015!

We are excited to bring back WORK:SHOP Holiday Artisan Market this year for its third incarnation!  Saturday Dec 5 + Sunday Dec 6.  The studio will be full to the brim with gorgeous small goods produced by 17 of our good friends and colleagues from the Hudson Valley and NYC.  Hope to see you there!

 

Tempura Dining in Style on 39th Street

Very proud to install our black walnut and white oak countertops at Tempura Matsui, a groundbreaking new restaurant in NYC!   Grand opening is this week at 222 E 39th Street.  A collaboration with the super talented team at YT Design.

Thank you Steven Hall for this lovely blog post telling the story behind “The Woods of Tempura Matsui“!

For more about Tempura Matsui, see the profile that appeared recently in the New York Times.

And Martha Stewart’s blog post about her amazing meal at Matsui!

A nice photo essay on the project on NY Eater.

Cable TV Production Crew Comes to Beacon!

Fun to spend a day doing a shoot with CNBC who are covering our studio as part of their “Escaping the Cube” series!  Stay tuned… our piece is scheduled to be broadcast during their Power Lunch segment on Friday June 5.  We will post the link online as soon as it is available!

Lake Table with Leaves

Quilted black walnut dining table, with two removable leaves.  Private residence, Putnam Valley, NY.  Custom (removable!) hardware in anodized aluminum by Get Bent Metalworks.  Designed in collaboration with Elizabeth Strianese Interiors.  Dimensions: 9′ long (expanding to 13′ with two 24″ leaves), 42″ wide, 1.5″ thick.

Oak and Steel Kitchen Island

Kitchen island in white oak and oiled steel.   Quartersawn white oak from a tree sourced in northern New Jersey in 2008.  With custom steel and glass understructure.  Private residence, Millbrook, New York.  A collaboration with Get Bent Metalworks and James Dixon Architect. 91″ L x 42″ W x 36″ H. Photography by Meredith Heuer.

Beacon Japan Tool Study Group

Over the past six months we have had the privilege of hosting the Beacon Japanese Tool Study Group in our studio on occasional Sundays… It is an ongoing exploration of the mysteries and incredible properties of the kanna, the Japanese hand plane and the other tools that support it – chisels, saws and marking devices.  We turn off our cell phones, put the waterstones in to soak and practice, practice, practice under the expert and guiding eye of Yann Giguere.  Yann owns and operates Mokuchi, a very special Japanese woodworking school of sorts out of his studio in Brooklyn.  We are so lucky that he is able to make the trip to Beacon to work with us.