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About Brian Boggs : Brian has designed and built chairs for some of the most highly regarded furniture experts in the world. Most notable include the late Sam Maloof, who won the MacArthur Genius Grant for his work in woodworking and furniture design, Frank Pollaro, CEO of Pollaro Custom Furniture and celebrity designer, and master woodworker Christian Becksvoort. STATEMENT OF ART:Brian is also a machine designer and tool maker. Lie-Nielsen owns the rights to Boggs shave horse and 3 spokeshave designs, which are sold, used and praised by professionals and amateurs alike globally. There are many happy owners of Boggs Spokeshaves, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. I envision designs that often run outside of what tradition would do. But with a clear understanding of materials and process, I design new ways to make unusual forms or to make chairs unusually comfortable. This will sometimes require development of a new technique, a new tool, or even a new custom machine. It’s all part of creative design and I feel quite at home in it all. ORGANIZATION: Brian Boggs Chairmakers EXPERIENCE: 1982 - present, self-employed in furniture design and chairmaking/fine woodworking, Berea KY & Asheville NC/USA EVENTS: 2015, "The Myth of the Handmade Object", Speaker, Furniture Society Annual Meeting, Raleigh NC/USA 2013, "Who is Running our Furniture Business?", Speaker, Furniture Society & Dwell on Design Conference, Los Angeles/USA 2013, Banquet Speaker, Fine Woodworking Annual Conference, Hartford CT/USA 2012, Speaker, Woodworking in America Annual Conference/USA AWARDS: 2013, Sunniva Porch Swing & Stand awarded US Patent #D712,167/USA 2013, Lily Chair, Finalist in the 2014 Niche Awards/USA 2010, Best in Show, Craft in America/USA 2008, Editor's Choice Award, Popular Woodworking/USA 2007, Best in Show, Fine Furnishings Shows, Providence RI/USA 2006, Top 10 New Tools of the Year, Popular Woodworking/USA 2006, Editor's Choice Award, Fine Woodworking/USA 2006, Best in Show, Fine Furnishings Show, Milwaukee WI/USA PRESS APPEARANCES: 2015, “Rethinking the Act of Sitting,” Capital at Play, June, North Carolina USA 2015, “Going with the Grain,” Seven Magazine, Spring, North Carolina USA 2015, “A New Dynamic in Outdoor Luxury,” Upscale Living, April/USA 2014, “Brian Boggs Handcrafted Chairs,” Ocean Home, October/USA 2014, “Mover and Shaker Chairmaker Brian Boggs,” MODERN, April / USA 2013, “True to Form,” WNC Magazine, March, North Carolina/USA 2012, “Brian Boggs on Furniture Design,” Popular Woodworking, September/USA 2012, “A Chairmaker’s Laboratory,” Popular Woodworking, February/USA 2011, “The South’s Best Rocking Chairs,” Garden & Gun, January/USA 2010,“Collective Soul,” Carolina Home & Garden, Fall/USA 1998,“Brian Boggs: Commitment to Excellence,” Woodwork, February/USA ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS: Articles Authored Fine Woodworking Magazine “Master Class: Powerful New Joint,” Nov. 2014 “Master Class: Low-Cost Scraper Planes,” 2007 “Soup Up Your Spokeshave,” Sep. 2002 “Post-and-Rung Stool,” Aug. 2001 “Master Class: A New Breed of Shaving Horse,” Dec.1999 “Choosing the Right Drill Bit for the Job,” Oct.1999 “Master Class: Jigs for Joints on Curving Parts,” Aug.1998 “Building a Bent-Back Rocker,” October 1989 Popular Woodworking Magazine “The Myth of the Self-Taught Craftsman,” Nov. 2013 “The Myth of Original Design,” Dec. 2011 “Ebonizing Wood,” June 2009 Woodwork Magazine “A Ladderback Rocker,” 1991 Home Furniture Magazine “Evolution of a Chair,” Fall 1996 “Hickory Bark Seat: A Pleasure to Use, an Adventure to Harvest,” Fall 1996 “A Chair Built for Comfort,” Summer 1995 BOOKS: “Chairmaking & Design” by Jeff Miller, 2007 “The Chairmaker’s Workshop” by Drew Langsner, 2001 “The Art of Chair-Making” by Kerry Pierce, 1998 “The Workshop Book” by Scott Landis, 1998 “America’s Traditional Crafts” by Robert Shaw, 1993 “Kentucky Crafts” by Phyllis George Brown, 1989 “The Workbench Book” by Scott Landis, 1987 ACCOLADES: "Brin's are the most comfortable wooden chairs ever made" Popular Wood Working Magazine LANGUAGE SKILLS: Fluent English, proficient French, a little Spanish COMPUTER LITERACY: Microsoft office, proficient COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS:: 1998, Woodworking Conference, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA/USA "Greenwood Chairmaking", "Making a Rocker", Mark Adams School of Woodworking, Greenwood IN/USA "Greenwood Chairmaking", Northwest Woodworking Studio, Portland OR/USA "Ladderback Chairmaking", Turning Point Studio, Atlanta GA/USA "Ladderback Chairmaking", Rosewood Studio, Altamont Ontario/CANADA "Greenwood Chairmaking", Inside Passage School of Woodworking, Roberts Creek, BC/CANADA "Greenwood Chairmaking", West Dean College, West Sussex/ENGLAND In another vein I have taught over a dozen workshops in Honduras on a Peche tribal reservation as a project of PDBL; a joint rainforest management initiative of Canadian and Honduran govt. forestry departments I also taught several workshops in Peru, both in the Lima area as well as deep in the Amazon region where I was working with a Yanesha tribe. This was not a workshop in the traditional sense. I was charged with designing products and teaching a group of Yanesha how to make these in their primitive work spaces. I have been on a teaching hiatus for the past few years, so all of these are from prior to 2012. SYMPOSIUMS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES:: Speaker - Furniture Society Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC, 2015 Speaker - Furniture Society & Dwell on Design, Los Angeles CA, 2013 Keynote Speaker - Fine Woodworking Annual Conference, Hartford CT, 2013 Speaker - Woodworking in America Annual Conference, 2012 MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS: 2015, The Furniture Society, Durham NC/USA HOBBIES: Fly fishing, tying fly fishing flies, cooking, traveling, playing cards, visiting with friends and family WEB SITE: www.brianboggschairmakers.com PORTFOLIO URL: www.brianboggschairmakers.com REGISTRATION DATE: 2015-08-11 15:40:57 COUNTRY/REGION: United States of America ACCOUNT TYPE: Professional |
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