Andrew Barss wrote:

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As to the earlier comments about Krenov:

It's fine and expected if someone doesn't like his
work. But I think it's unfair to dismiss his
cabinets as non-functional eye candy. There is a loooonnggg
tradition in both European and Asian woodworking
in the building of cabinets whose function is to serve
as a display cabinet for small carvings, ceramics, etc.
He isn't building cabinets to stuff old copies
of National Geographic or computer games into.


I fear our esthetic senses are rapidly sliding
towards IKEA and Pottery Barn and the range of
"furniture" is getting smaller and smaller.

If you really want to see "art furniture",
look at Gary Knox Bennett's or Michael Hosaluk's stuff.
Or, if you value your time, don't!


You'd think by now Mr. Bennett would look like
Dizzy G at his fullest after so many years of
tongue in cheeking. "I'm not an artist. I'm
just a furniture maker." - my ass. It ain't
how good you are but how good you can make
people believe you are. The fact that he CAN
design, build and finish really good pieces
is more the pity. Too much ego and not enough
soul in his stuff, to say nothing of all the
really nice wood he wastes on things that
could've been done out of MDF, or plaster of
paris for that matter.

I'll skip googling Hosaluk. Thanks for the
warning

(rant mode off)

charlie b