Looking back over the last 25 years, I remember a surprising variety of projects that I have been involved in. You'll see some of them here on the site.

Looking back at the path...
I spent several years building kitchen cabinets before coming to the States in the early '80s. After trying my hand at housebuilding for awhile, I was happy to find work as a boatbuilder, mostly repairing wooden boats around the San Francisco Bay. During the next ten years, I restored a fifty-five foot yacht (about 4000 hours), built a few small sailboats, and fixed a lot of rotten ones. Somewhere along the way, I started calling myself a woodworker and feeling good about it.

Since moving away from the water several years ago, I've been designing and building furniture, both developing my own design sense and drawing from the many contemporary and historical woodworkers that I admire. I work on several levels, building furniture designed by others, building furniture by bringing customers into the design process, and building my own designs.

View Perspectives...
Two of my greatest pleasures exist in counterpoint.

From the shop my view looks over my garden and off into the redwood forests. The garden always beckoning for attention.

From the garden I see the shop, an unfinished building full of ideas waiting patiently for their moment...each view with its own song and its own chaos.

I enjoy challenging and ususual projects, and welcome your inquiries.

Anthony