Greg A.
I
began working with wood as a finish carpenter on high-end houses in Aspen,
Colorado in the 70s, and later was fortunate enough to work with a
Norwegian immigrant furniture maker. Even as a child growing up in Eastern
Iowa I loved visiting Amish furniture shops, finding the endless variety
of wood fascinating. In 1980 I moved to the Northwest, and worked in local
cabinet shops to support the opening of my first shop in 1981. I have
always been largely self-taught through observation and experimentation,
but once I focused on the goal of making furniture as a career I began
taking workshops with furniture makers such as James Krenov, Thomas Moser,
and Isaburo Kawada. Since then that first tiny shop, where I worked alone
in the woods of Whatcom County, has now evolved into a 4,000 sq. ft shop of five woodworkers in
downtown Bellingham, Washington
which is now
looking to expand to twice its current size.
Maple and Fig Barstool$625 17x28in
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