05/31/2019
So it was pointed out to me that the toy dinosaur in my last post was not a useful reference as it was not to scale. Hopefully this remedies the situation.
The Flotsam Furniture Works
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Custom modern furniture handmade in Portland, Oregon. Things evolved quickly after that.
My name is Nick Sario, and I created The Flotsam Furniture Works out of a thoughtfully cultivated fusion of single-minded obsession and wild desperation. At the time this all began, home was a drafty Chicago apartment furnished almost entirely by hand-me-downs from my roommate’s grandmother. We were grateful to have any furnishings at all, but it was a bit odd living in an apartment that appeared
05/31/2019
05/31/2019
Side table in black walnut (dinosaur for scale).
05/23/2019
And here’s the crib view. It surprised me how many crib mobiles weren’t made to really be viewed from a crib. Either they had thin tile-like pieces that were near invisible when seen from below, or stuffed animals that would only look like so many feet. I took a cue from kinetic sculpture and went with a simple form that would give complex movement. Just blow on that biggest fin and the whole thing will be spooling and unspooling for the next ten minutes.
05/23/2019
I built this mobile some years ago to hang above my daughter’s crib. I always loved the simplicity of it, and every once in awhile I think about doing a production run of them, then I remember how mind-bendingly frustrating it was to keep at all perfectly balanced while stringing the pieces together. Finding the fulcrum point on that smallest fin was like trying to balance a pin on the head of another pin.
04/09/2019
Some walnut pairing well with walnut. That magenta hopsack doesn’t look half bad either.
03/08/2019
A final few details of the slat bench in oiled teak.
03/08/2019
A few more shots of this teak gentleman.
03/07/2019
A quick peek at the latest custom piece, a slat bench in teak.
03/06/2019
So I only recently learned that there’s actually a term for installing screws this way, where all the slotted heads have been aligned with each other. It’s called clocking, clocking screws. And all this time I thought it was called being a**l retentive.
03/05/2019
Secret curves from a secret project.
01/08/2019
Pattern matching is one of those things that requires a lot of work for it to look completely invisible. Upholstering this fella probably took a year off my life, but on the plus side, I think it cured my OCD.
12/13/2018
Can’t get enough of that heathered wool upholstery.
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