For this house interior, a master bedroom, I worked with a designer and a purveyor of hand-carved architectural wood details from northern Africa. My job was to fabricate everything but the imported wood tiles, pre-finish and install. The wood I used was American poplar and applied a custom blended wood stain and several coats of ...

Here is a 18th century piece that had serious problems with the rosewood veneer. I completely removed the old rosewood veneer but not before tracing the delicate marquetry design to reproduce it with new wood. From this close-up you can see how the original rosewood design is intact, and the way the artisan selected the grain ...