Working with Mixed Media
Looking back at 30 years of designing and building furniture from wood, metals, glass, and found objects
FineWoodworking.com editor Matt Berger looks over the shoulder of Garry Knox Bennett during a recent visit to his Oakland, Calif., live-work shop, while the 73-year-old mixed-media furniture maker looks back on his 30-year career selling furniture through galleries, shows off a few works in progress, and shares tricks for designing and constructing furniture from wood, metals, glass, and found objects.
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Garry Knox Bennett is an internationally acclaimed furniture maker whose mixed-media work is included in public and private collections around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Between 1958 and 1962, Bennett studied painting and sculpture at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, Calif. After college, he worked as a sculpture, painter, and jewelry maker, and launched a metal working business that he continues to operate.In the 1970s, Bennett switched his sights to furniture making, setting off on a 30-year career creating one-of-a-kind studio furniture.Read More… |
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Browse photos from the portfolio of Garry Knox Bennett in our online Gallery.
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