It was a perfect challenge.  A family in Colorado asked for a custom designed office desk to complement -- but not match -- their home’s rustic, log cabin feel.  They weren’t interested in rough furniture, but neither did they want something completely unrelated to their setting.

I focused my efforts on creating something of a celebration of the log home tradition, a piece that would take the form to its highest level.  This hand made writing desk was the result.  The thick walnut horizontal pieces are spaced slightly apart by extraordinarily figured, instrument-grade tiger maple to echo the calm, stable effect of a mountain cabin (click here to see the desk in its home setting).  The top is made of the same extraordinary curly maple (one of the finest pieces of wood I’ve ever worked).  The pencil drawer features a hidden compartment, and the large drawer at the bottom has handmade wooden slides on the interior to accommodate hanging file folders.

Pictured in solid walnut and tiger maple with wenge accents, 30 tall x 60 wide x 30 deep

$3,800 - $6,500