This has been my favorite job to date! One of my long-standing clients came to me and told me that she wanted an suite of furniture for her new office. She wanted an L-shaped desk with bookcases above it to go into a corner. She also needed a storage cabinet and a printer cart. She wanted it in cherry and hands me a book that she flagged a number of pages with Post-Its marking details she liked. All I could do was smile. The book was Greene & Greene: Masterworks, a book that I am intimately acquainted with. Charles and Henry Greene are my favorite designer/architects from the Arts & Crafts period. Many of the flagged details were from the Gamble House. Someone would be hard-pressed to come up with a job that I’d be more eager to take on. I started the first sketches that night. After several follow-up meetings and a number of sketches later, I was off and building an modern office suite that I hope would make the Greene brothers proud of the legacy that they had inspired. Desk: 78"x78”W x 30”D x 84”H overall. Storage Cabinet: 36"W x 14"D x 80"H. Printer Cart: 22"W x 16"D x 36"H. Cherry veneer plywood, cherry hardwood, mahogany drawer pulls. |