ALLEZ LES BLEUS

Ready to pick up today and heading back East to one of my favorite clients and friends is this biblio cabinet. It was conceived as a fresh upstart cousin to a piece that I made almost twenty years ago. They will join ranks in a house that I designed that is just being finished (hopefully a post for another day). Inlaid with bone, ebony and lead, and gilt French oak, with waxed steel pulls. Thank you Glenn and Linda for your patronage and friendship.

JUST IN TIME TO COOK

At long last the details are coming together in the kitchen. Not that we had not been using it, but countertops and drawer fronts are a plus, not to mention doors on the cabinets. I guess it is one of the hazards of doing this for a living. Kind of like the cobbler who's family has no shoes. Our home has always been part showroom, part experiment, and another part open ended mystery. I like to call it comfortable upheaval. I am sure it has been referred to using other words too. Thanksgiving is just around the bend. It is my favorite holiday. Just family and friends and food without the angst of gift getting. I am very happy with the way it has turned out. Turned out so far that is........Thank you Glenn and Linda and Morocco for the tile, Waleed for the small sculpture, Chris for your patience. Happy Thanksgiving!

BRUSSELS SPROUTS ANYONE?

LIGHT MY FIRE

Just in time for what the locals call winter here the fireplace mantles are finished. The power of a fire is hard to explain but suddenly it feels a lot more like home now. Scrubbed pine, waxed steel, zinc sheeting with small brass pins and stone all came together. The bedroom version is gas and frames only the flame and its reflection through a bronze screen.

BOO

She was a little bit empty headed but she had such a great set of horns. Happy Halloween.

READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP

WHO SAID GOD IS IN THE DETAILS?

Most of these shots were taken by my daughter Lauren who is a sophomore architecture major at UCLA. Sometimes a different point of view makes me see my work in new ways. Thanks, Lauren