Cabinets

Gunther Pfeffer builds pieces that straddle the line between furniture and sculpture.

The door is composed of four beveled staves in an asymmetrically curved line and is faired on the inside and outside with hand planes

Guillermo Rodriguez's beginnings as a boxmaker and full-time woodworker go back only four or five years

Tim carefully mortises for offset knife hinges, which require careful layout and precision.

While at CFC, Bonnie Hawk heard that the U.S. National Toboggan Championships would be held nearby. She and her husband won the trophy—not for the fastest time, but for the best toboggan.

The North Bennet Street School had been in business for over 80 years when Phil Lowe enrolled as a student in 1967. Lowe became a teacher at NBSS in 1975 and stayed until 1985. By all accounts, his leadership—along with that of Lance Patterson and others—revitalized the program and locked in a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum.

Often unhappy but never undaunted, Maruyama persisted—and blossomed. “For me, furniture was always intended to be a vehicle of creative expression and experimentation.” She went on to lead the furniture program at SDSU herself from 1989 to 2015, and it redressed many of the issues she had struggled against.

Krenov’s cabinets and books would have secured him a place in the pantheon of 20th-century furniture makers. But in 1981 some devotees of his books arranged a teaching position for him in Northern California that evolved into a full-time program.

Tim uses a bandsaw, a spindle sander, and a series of hand tools to shape the elegantly curved legs.

Tim trims tenons on the table saw and bandsaw, cuts a gunstock miter on the table saw, and cleans up tenon shoulders with chisels.