Another one I forgot about - Richard Williams - richardwilliamsfurniture.com
Great cabinet makers of the 21st century
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Quite agree. He makes glorious furniture hinting at the campaign furniture style. Did he ever sell that writing desk in Macassar Ebony ? !
No idea, I only know of his work via his website
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Hasn't he popped off this mortal coil ?
Yes.
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It's the same chap!
Must say I'm very jealous of all that stuff he's churned though, he must have been a demon worker.
On the question of "greatest cabinet maker" I can't get very interested - it's a very narrow sector. The terms "designer', "sculptor" or merely "vernacular" seem more interesting, as applied to woodwork.
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Unlikely. Tim Stead is English.
" There was another extravagant Scottish maker who was well known a few years back"
Rob Elliot ?.
Scottish furniture makers association - If anyone is looking for ahem....'ideas'
https://www.scottishfurnituremakers.org.uk/furniture-search/
" There was another extravagant Scottish maker who was well known a few years back"
Rob Elliot ?.
Scottish furniture makers association - If anyone is looking for ahem....'ideas'
https://www.scottishfurnituremakers.org.uk/furniture-search/
Jacob
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No I think it was T Stead I have in mind. He seemed to have studied/worked mostly in Scotland.
Rob Elliot a bit of a hobbit perhaps? It became a style after the film, crossed with Steam Punk.
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Regarding your earlier post suggesting I knew another Scottish maker who worked in a monumental style, I'm pretty sure it was Tim Stead because he was sometimes known disparagingly as Stonehenge Stead. In truth, I recall him being a very enthusiastic and personable woodworker happy to share his stories and journey into the craft - he was quite unconventional in many ways. He would happily come into the art college where I worked and undertake lectures and Q&A sessions, as well as hosting groups of undergraduates at his home and workshop (one and the same), plus enthuse about the purchase of and management of woodland in the Borders of which he was a prime instigator to get off the ground, so to speak - of course a woodland can't really physically 'get off the ground' ... as far as I know, ha, ha. Slainte.
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Have a look at Doucette and Wolf, in my humble opinion great work
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Stead
Admittedly it doesnt actually say where, and i dont really know for 100% so you could be right.
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Woodworking like music has a limited amount of joints and styles, same with notes and chords trying to create something original and unique is a challenge,has already been done personally the arts and crafts or shaker styles are my favourites unpretentious,and form and usefulness over style
Jacob
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Creating something unoriginal and ordinary is also a challenge! That's largely what the Shakers did but with just an extra touch of style of their own.
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More or less what I imagined. He seems to have constructed his temple of excellence without much experience in the untidy world of woodwork as most of us know it. Hence the absence of furniture in his "Furniture Making Techniques" book. Maybe he caught up with book 2 but I haven't seen it.He made DVDsActually, @MikeK studied with him, so he might have seen some of his furniture in person. As far as I know, after completing his studies with Edward Baly (founding member of Devon Guild of Craftsmen, also mentioned in the book written by Alan Peters), he started to teach woodworking shortly after, so maybe he did not have a professional career as a cabinet maker.
Unfortunately there's a huge amount of Stockhausen furniture about.
Nobody mentioned Sam Maloof yet? He probably did most of his famous work before y2k though.
Famous for his rocking chair which is often copied. His furniture can be a bit chunky but living in California he obviously had an abundant supply of walnut.
No one has really categorised "cabinet" and so are we looking at wooden cabinets or those made from man made materials such as MDF. Then as times have changed do people have different views on what is fine furniture and so Ikea could now be classed as a fine furniture maker as so many people buy there stuff. The answer maybe to have categories and have great cabinet makers of xyz.
