the love, life & work of Blake Johnson
This was a very exciting project. I got to work for Judith Leemann who I had while I was a freshman in college, making two custom benches for her show arvensis in the Distillery Gallery in South Boston. She had acquired two big pine slabs, bookmatched, from a friends’ relative, and wanted their shapes to […]
A friend from college asked me a while back if I could build him and his fiance a bench for their porch. “Maybe 4-5 people” he said, and small enough to fit in a little back porch area, and be moved inside during the winters. Not too steep of a challenge, and he was so […]
I spent about a year and a half working nearly full-time at Doriss Design Workshoppe, a cabinetry/furniture/millwork shop in South Boston. It was a great low-key work environment, with all kinds of different an interesting projects coming in and out, and I learned a bunch about cabinetmaking, furniture fabrication, and some welding and spray finishing […]
Well this one’s been a long time coming. Not the greatest, but it’s done. That was all I really wanted out of it anyway. From the timberframe barn a few summers ago I snagged some scrap lumber, milled it down pretty primitively with chainsaw and circular saw into slabs and strips, and came out with […]