White Oak

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Judge’s Special Award This lounge chair was Diego’s first major woodworking project. Its structural members, which taper to surprisingly thin cross sections, remain sound thanks to bent lamination. Diego did…

Each year Walter makes holiday gifts for family and friends that he can build in batches. When he found an empty whiskey barrel in the alley behind his studio, he…

Ben’s piece was inspired in part by televisions from the 1950s that looked like pillowed cubes raised several inches off the ground on tapered, turned legs that splayed out. Rather…

Inspired by both the Arts and Crafts movement and Japanese furniture, this fumed white oak and leather firewood rack was conceived as a showpiece that would be at home in…

Years ago, Peter came across a bin labeled “Japanese white oak” at the lumberyard. The folks there told him the oak had been purchased decades before by a patternmaker who,…

Living in small spaces in a big city inspired J. J. to create a versatile object that could serve several functions. This piece can be used as a bench with…

All the inner workings of a chest with drawers are revealed in this piece by Vasko Sotirov.

Jeph had made a changing table for each of his children when they had their first child. When his fourth child announced that she was pregnant with her first, she…

Michael built this bedside cabinet while in the mastery program at the Northwest Woodworking Studio. His aim was to build a Mid-Century design using traditional joinery and techniques. WHITE OAK,…