Author name: Enthusiast

“Mari is right, everyone should have a project: after all it is the best way to avoid being designed yourself.” — G.C. Argan, L’Espresso, 1974 In 1974, Italian designer Enzo Mari published a series of furniture designs that were free to the public. People were encouraged to use his drawings to produce tables, chairs, beds and bookshelves. What’s more, Mari designed the pieces so they could be made from standardized […]

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A mitered mortise and tenon joint brings an English charm to a New England-style chest. by Peter Follansbee For me, the timing of writing for a magazine is hard to wrap my head around. The season that I write in is never the season my stuff gets read. As I write this column, it is late November in New England, and the column is for the April issue of the […]

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Those who follow this blog know that I’m pretty taken with the advances being made in paints and coatings. We might not be seeing these advances in the paint we buy at the home center yet, but it’s fun to anticipate what’s coming. So the latest I’ve seen is a paint that disables the nervous system in mosquitoes, which prevents them from flying or biting. The paint has been developed […]

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In April I taught a weeklong class at the Kansas City Woodworkers’ Guild. Everything I’d read and heard about the organization had left me with high expectations. As it turned out, my high expectations weren’t high enough. Sure, I’d heard about the 10,000 square foot shop and was dimly cognizant that the place had existed for a long time, though I didn’t yet know just how long. That in itself […]

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by Tim Johnson If you can build a box, you can build this planter. It’s much sturdier than most commercial versions, so it should last for many years. It’s also the perfect opportunity for you to try your hand at shingling. The opening accommodates a 30″ drop-in plastic window-box planter. They’re available at any garden store in several lengths. You could easily alter the design to fit a different-size box, […]

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These days, as spring has finally decided to knock on our doorstep, and flowers of all colors and shapes are spectacularly commencing to bloom en masse, I, for the first time, was able to see the emerging graphic layout of my book. After months of dealing with words, illustrating individual drawings, photographing, and collecting pictures from near and far, I am able to see how the composition named: Working Reclaimed […]

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