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Atlantis Art
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Custom Furniture and Woodworking
Brent Baker -- Corvallis, Oregon
bsquared@peak.org
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Furniture
In a culture where technology
becomes obsolete in less than four years, furniture presents an
opportunity for lasting usage. We buy antiques that are
75 years old, and often older. Making furniture that lasts for decades
is not a lost art. Choosing solid, well dried wood, making precise
joints, and using durable finishes are all well understood. The
difficulty for the consumer is being able, or willing, to pay for
well made work. For the artist the difficulty lies in having the
design skill to make something that outlives today's fashion and
remains elegant and desirable decade after decade.
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| Coffee table -- eastern ash, and other
hardwoods -- I built this coffee table to celebrate
getting my B.S. in Computer Science. |
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| Dining Table -- walnut, osage orange --
I built this to celebrate
getting my M.S in Computer Science. I've always liked Gothic
architecture and I tried emulate its style in this table.
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| Bed -- bubinga, lacewood, birdseye maple, and other
hardwoods I like sleeping on a waterbed, but they
are so often ugly and classless. I've tried to build one that
is beautiful. The scene in headboard is of Three Sisters mountains
in Central Oregon. Thus the bed is named Sleeping with Three
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| Chest of Drawers -- Bubinga,
Birdseye Maple, Maple Plywood When the bed was
finished I obviously needed a matching chest of drawers.
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| Desk -- walnut, canarywood, zebrawood
When this desk was 3/4 completed, I decided a couple of
drawers would be useful, and added them to what was originally
just a work table. The center black walnut panel was 3rd prize
in a woodworking contest. |
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| Stereo Cabinet -- walnut,
yellowheart, wenge I needed a cabinet to hold
my stereo and video gear and I thought all the ones at the furniture
store were too plain and cheaply built.
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| CD and DVD Cabinets -- walnut,
yellowheart, wenge Matching cabinets to hold
to hold my CDs and DVDs. I think the coopered doors and a certain touch
of elegance.
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