This is where i spent the last 1/4 of 2011.  This is JAMONERA restaurant on 13th st. near chestnut in Center City Philadelphia.  These pictures do no justice to the amount of work that went into the project.  The space needs to be seen to fully appreciate it and the food and drink only makes it better.  If you go PLEASE try the red vermouth.  it changed me. 

Reclaimed Is So Hot Right Now!

this is the entrance to Leadnomics Corporate Office in the Cira Center that beautiful prism shaped highrise at the western edge of center city, Philadelphia.  they were not pleased with the headache inducing wall paper and asked that i introduce something warmer and more inviting. 

this was the result, a mix of various salvaged barn siding and bead boards from just a little further west in berks county.  the curved wall is 8’ tall and 18’ long. 

 farm table meets farm house.

installed this today.  the top was featured a few posts back.  the base is made from reclaimed hemlock studs from around the city of Philadelphia. i used my asterisk joint to make something classic a little tricky.  i’m into it. 

the bench seat with storage is made from distressed white oak (yes it’s a faux finish) and some old crates left in my shop from whence it was a glass shop many moons past. (theres even some old stencils that say FRAGILE and BELETZ BROS. GLASS

most important is that the homeowners are loving it. 

STOKED! 

my Furniture is now for sale at ART STAR in Northern Liberties here in the city of brotherly love. Art Star is a Rad little boutique/gallery selling handmade crafts and goods for the home.  Check them out at:

http://www.artstarphilly.com/

i have donated the BUG BENCH as a display (not for sale) due to the fact that it has an infestation of powder-post beetles and needs to be injected with toxins occasionaly to abort any offspring. 

for sale is the Strolling Doe walnut bench and the Ameoba cherry table.  i plan on doing a lot more in the near future now that i have an outlet for my work.

FRUSTRATINGLY AWFUL PHOTOS of one of the raddest projects i’ve done lately.

This started with a trip to Hearne Hardwoods where i picked up a stack of flitch sawn Black Walnut.  An hour at Pappajohn’sWoodworking shop to use the wide planer.  Next a trip to Recycling the Past in NJ for the Cast Iron Antique lathe stand.  Throw in a trip to Joseph Fazio’s Metal Supply for the bolts and angle iron.  A substantial amount of time in my shop and Ta-Da!

Matching Shelf and Table for the Commonwealth Proper showroom, a bespoke suiting company based near Rittenhouse Square here in Philadelphia.

www.commonwealthproper.com

www.pappajohnwoodworking.com

www.hearnehardwoods.com

www.josephfazzioinc.com

www.recyclingthepast.com

here lies a bench…this piece of ambrosia maple came from a wood shop up in the badlands of philadelphia that was going out of business.  i was walking out the door with it and the owners daughter was all “aw pah,not the the spalted maple” and some other burly carpenter fellow said “thats not spalted, it’s called ghost maple because the bug holes look like ghosts”. 

well anyway this is what i made of it.  it’s one of the simplest designs but after staring at this slab for over a year it begged to become this bench.  everything fit perfectly just like this.  the only scraps i was left with became 3 small cutting boards and a jewelry rack for the mrs.

it was in my living room for awhile and then for sale at the cottage for the summer and now for sale at ALL BY HAND, a store at liberty place mall here in our fair city.  however it is priced ridiculously high because i fucking love this bench and never really want to sell it unless someone loves it more than me.  i’m so selfish i know. 

http://allbyhand.blogspot.com/2010/03/spring-fling.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Philadelphia-PA/All-By-Hand/193444382399?v=wall

this is a table built from garbage…

everyday here in philadelphia wood just like this goes directly in the dumpster.  the sad irony is that a majority of the time the wood that replaces it is inferior, new growth dimentional lumber from the Home Despot.

I got these here particular beams during the demolition (and eventual reconstruction) of Noble American Cookery on Sansom st here in the city of brotherly love.  when i got them they were covered in a layer of black dust and filled with nails and screws of every shape and size.  after a year of gathering even more dust in my shop and a day of pulling and digging out nails (not to mention a billion splinters) and another day of sanding/inhaling the afformentioned 100 year old black dust i got down to the good wood. just an 1/8th” below the surface is perfect, clean and beautiful pine with the tightest growth rings i’ve ever seen.  the trick for me was to get enough of the surface gunk off but leave the amazing reddish brown color that the outer layer of wood that has taken on over the past century.

I built this table for mary jo ubriaco of the cottage, an antique store on Long Beach Island, NJ.  She sells alot of replica farmhouse tables and when i told her about the wood i had she said make me a table. i certainly did not wish to make another plain old farmhouse table so this is my “modern” (a word i loath as much as “green”)take on a farmhouse table.

it is approx:

96”long x 40”wide x 30”tall

if you are interested in seeing it (or buying it!) it is for sale at:

The Cottage Antiques

1600 Long Beach Boulevard
Surf City, NJ 08008-5457
(609) 494-4222

Thanks to ANN COEN for the pictures!

http://www.anncoen.com/

if you care to see what became of Noble:

http://www.noblecookery.com/

more on them later

here is a boring bamboo cabinet and paperstone top that i was commissioned to build by boring yuppies who beat me up on a price and never said thank you.  never heard from them again.

Fishtown Bathroom…  Glass tile, repurposed green glass panels, ipe vanity, 3form/aluminum medicine cabinet,bamboo floor,grohe plumbing fixtures.

this is my house.  i did everything from the demo to the plumbing and all the finishes.  special thanks to joe farrington (my cousin) for the electric.  glass doors and surround by Gordon and sons a glass company on my street.  I”m so fucking ECO dewd.  i joke but it’s true and i am pleased that alot in this room is re used or leftovers from other projects:

*ipe leftovers from bruno’s floor panels

*mirror salvaged from LBI remodel

*mirror frame/towel rack(not shown)leftovers from a mohogany deck job on LBI

*soapstone shelves and sill from my kitchen countertops

*glass panels purchased on Craigslist for $20 from a bathroom from the 1950s

*3form from a kitchen in S.Philly