When Johnny A. Williams decided to ditch his marketing job in Manhattan and pursue woodworking as a profession, he found an ideal shop space right behind his mother’s house on an old apple orchard and poultry farm in Newtown, Conn. The little red barn, built in 1944 as a henhouse, was a rudimentary structure, with cinder-block walls below and plywood above, and no insulation or power. But working alongside the carpentry crew, Williams soon helped turn the ground-floor space into a snug shop, and the loft into a gallery for his mother, Katherine, an antiques dealer. Along with a selection of vintage glassware, ceramics, and furnishings, the gallery also features some contemporary furniture made right downstairs.

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