CHAIRS




Peter began his furniture building career intrigued with building small cabinets. He wanted to stray from the traditional shapes and design cabinets with curved sides, flowing tops, as well as, mixing in panels of stained glass in the place of wood panels. The latter combining his wood working skills with his ability to design and work with stained glass. His interest in creating “never seen before cabinets” has been replaced with an incredible love for designing and building chairs and stools. Peter still enjoys building custom desks, tables, beds, and cabinets out of his small shop in Cornville, Maine but his passion is creating “one of a kind” wood chairs that are not only beautiful to look at but comfortable to sit on. Each piece of every chair is shaped by hand from rough sawn hardwood boards by this award winning artist. He finds that he connects strongly with each chair as the wood seat is created. Starting with rough 8/4 boards, Peter selects the most attractive board to build the seat. Believing the seat is the centerpiece of each chair, the selected board has to have an interesting grain pattern and a rich color. The boards for every seat are matched, glued, and planed down to 7/4. It is at this point that the flat seat blank is initially edge shaped and taken to his grinding booth. This is where Peter grinds and sands each seat, shaping and matching each side by eye and touch. As wood chips and dust fly, the grain pattern changes as he works to the desired depth. It is at this moment that time seems to stand still and Peter is totally connected to the raw material he is working on. Shaped by hand and eye to a 220 grit finish, the seat is then ready for assembly.

Peter is an artist that gives a customer the opportunity to truly individualize the chair or stool that has been commissioned. The customer can enjoy choosing from a large variety of wood species and select what wood the functional art piece will be built out of. Wood can be mixed and matched to suit each customer’s need and desire. Following is a list of wood species each seat and chair can be made from.
The Walton, Lizanne, and Highlander chairs can all be made with a different wood species for the seat.  The following list is wood readily available for these beautiful hand carved seats:
Teak Curly Soft Maple Soft Maple Hard Maple Birdseye Hard Maple White Oak
 Koa
Yellow Poplar White ash Basswood Yellow Birch
 Red Birch Red Oak Iroko
Canarywood Black Limba Black walnut Padauk Cherry Zebrawood Sipo
Wenge Jatoba
(Brazilian Cherry)		 Lacewood
(Leopard wood)		 Bubinga
(African Rosewood)		 African
Mahogany		 Purpleheart

Due to the demensions needed for the front legs of the Walton chairs and the back legs of the Lizannes and Highlanders the following list shows what is available for the construction of the chair itself:
Black Walnut Basswood Cherry Hard Maple
When building a chair for a customer, Peter makes a point of hand selecting the best hardwood boards out of the bins at the lumber yards. This guarantees that if he is building a set, all the chairs will relate to one another. There may be times though when Peter has to purchase a board (such as Koa) without inspecting it first. In this case, the wood will still be of a high grade but grain pattern and color will not be able to be matched. Also, prices of his chairs may vary depending on the wood selected. Following is an example of this:
WALTON NE SIDE CHAIR
black walnut
with black walnut seat
$1,650		 WALTON NE SIDE CHAIR
black walnut
with koa seat
$2,100
CHAIR LIST

WALTON DINING ROOM
SIDE AND ARM CHAIR

LIZANNE DINING ROOM
SIDE AND ARM CHAIR

WALTON NE DINING ROOM
SIDE AND ARM CHAIR

HIGHLANDER DINING ROOM
SIDE CHAIR

ANTOINE DINING ROOM
ARMED AND UNARMED CHAIR

JAMILA STUDIO CHAIR

KINSHASA CHAIR