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"Ghost Cabinet" by Brian Newell

26" wide x 27" deep x 68" high

Master woodworker Brian Newell’s love of woodcarving began at the tender age of eight. After reading A Cabinetmaker’s Notebook by famed studio furniture maker James Krenov with whom he later studied at the College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program – Brian made his first cabinets. Since then, Brian has honed his craft, becoming world-renowned for his organic pieces than marry Eastern and Western influences. American Craft magazine noted that Brian’s work “combines cleanly executed pieces, what seem to be contradictory qualities, such as weight and lightness, formal elegance and whimsy.” After graduating in 1990 from the Redwoods program, Brian set up shop in Chicago. During this time, he worked as a patternmaker for the scale model industry and established his own workshop, where he commissioned furniture along with an occasional speculation piece for Pritam and Eames Gallery in New York. In 1997 he moved to Atsugi, Japan, where he continued furniture marking in a workshop he built on his wife’s ancestral land. In 2008, they returned to the United States and settled in Fort Bragg, CA.

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