#2 van Muyden Chair, Robert Erickson by Kari M. Main Published by Yale University Art Gallery, 1999 The chair was inspired by a trip to Norway that Robert Erickson took with his wife in 1977, during which he studied the locally built chairs of Scandinavia. Erickson was fascinated by the farm-made chairs he saw in [...]
Edited by John Kelsey and Rick Mastelli Published by The Furniture Society, 1999 Bob Erickson lives and works on a homestead in Northern California remote enough to require a generator to produce his electricity. It is a lovely spot, graced by a house, shop, solar wood kiln, and other amenities Erickson and his wife, Liese [...]
Berlingske Tidende (Copenhagen) ~ Wednesday, August 30, 1989 by Martin Hartung
This Cloudlift Style is inspired by the Arts and Crafts furniture of the Greene Brothers of Pasadena, California. Quilted maple and bubinga slats
The bench top was created from a tree scarred in an infamous fire of 1911. The epicormic branching from that growth ring has created a beautiful pattern and figure.
A pair of these side tables was designed in the Charles and Henry Greene style to be used as sculpture stands in an art gallery of a house of the same architecture. Made in cherry. 17.5″ wide x 31.5″ long x 24″ high. One of the tables will hold a bronze by sculptor Harry Jackson [...]
Made from the crotch of a walnut tree from Zamora, California. Created after seeing the work of Ferd Schleimann, a 1930′s era walnut farmer and artist from the same area of the Sacramento Valley.
This illustration shows a variation in the color palette.
