DESIGN IN WOOD 2018: Each year, the San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association produces its juried exhibition, Design in Wood. This year’s show included 26 competitive categories and dozens of interesting pieces. Here is just a thin slice of the many jewels that were found there. For more, go to sdfwa.org.

This bedside table is part of a set. The marquetry on this one shows a mother bird with four babies in the nest waiting for food; the other one (not shown) has the male bird bringing the food. “The design was family inspired,” Cowell says, with the four baby birds in the nest depicting his children with their unique personalities. The secondary wood for the project was white oak reclaimed from church pews.

MAHOGANY, EBONY, AND VARIOUS MARQUETRY WOODS, 20D X 25W X 30H

—Ken Cowell, Yorba Linda, Calif.

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