Furniture photography

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“I think everybody in Vermont takes a lot of pride in what they do. Pride in working with their hands. Pride in the [furniture] they’re putting out and how the world perceives that.” 

“Vermont does have this reputation of both producing quality [furniture], but also an incredible design sense and work ethic sense. And that Vermont workmanship– that Vermont attitude of wanting to make the best of anything that they build– I think runs through the state.” 

“Each piece [of wood] is unique, so we have to pay attention to it, and I certainly try to read each piece. Like people, it’s flaws are what make it interesting.” 

• “Everything I build is going to last a lifetime– generations. And it’s always going to hold its’ value, too.” 

• “What makes us different is that my wife and I are obsessive about human beings making things by hand. Of course we prize good design, and skilled craftsmanship, and beautiful materials, but we have an added thing here which is the human sense, the feeling you get when you walk up to piece of furniture that somebody made. You can see that it’s handmade, and you can feel the difference.”

“I think about every tree that is cut down, and the power and privilege we have to extend its life and to display its beauty in the furniture we make.” 

“When a finished piece expresses our creativity, either through the natural beauty of the wood, the design or the marks of shaping left by the human hand, it sends a message.  In these times when so much is mass produced in factories by automated machines on the other side of the world, many are treasuring that message and the natural resources that surround it.”

“Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.” 

“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future“

“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future“

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works”

• “Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.” 

• “Every great design begins with an even better story.” 

• “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.” 

“Your home should be a story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love.” 

“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.” 

• “Furniture must have personality, as well as be beautiful.” 

• “Craftsmanship requires a fusion of skills, knowledge, understanding, and imagination, perfected by experience.” 

• As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.” 

• “The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.” 

• “If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.”

• “We start reading a book in the same way we slip into a cold bed. We only start enjoying it after we’ve created the right atmosphere.” 

• “Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.”

• “The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.” 

•  “You are either in your bed or in your shoes, so it pays to invest in both”

 

• “You might be interested to know that I do not design furniture on a piece of paper. I design it three-dimensionally, on a workbench. I design it, and it works or it doesn’t work, and I change it. And in the process, the word “serendipity” here is appropriate, because chance often plays a role in the design.” 

• “I’ve never – a) taken a business course in my life or b) taken a design course. Although I did study the history of art, as a graduate student in architecture. But, yeah, both  are self-taught.” 

• “Every piece of furniture that we make is signed by the person who made it, and the amount of pride that goes into that signature is unbelievable. You know, there are so few people in America today whose work is going to be understood and appreciated by their great-great grandchildren who have not yet been born. And so we have that advantage.”