Modern furniture, thoughtfully made.

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Alex Jaynes uses traditional woodworking methods to create modern, thoughtfully made furniture. A former NASA engineer, he strives to balance beauty with elegant function. His work blends the subtlety of Scandinavian and Japanese design with the Shaker tradition's aesthetics of simplicity, utility, and honesty.

 

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The white oak continues. This will be something soon enough.
@kabochantico took me to Chicago, and I took a selfie at the bean. It is actually an amazing piece of public art. The scale of it is so impressive while it feels weightless. Everyone’s smiles curve up as the reflections bend everything down.
So far I’ve milled 500 board feet of this rift white oak. 1500 to go.
I love my @honda Fit. It’s going strong 10 years on and I had no problem retrieving all this furniture from a recent gallery exhibit @galleryofpretentious in one load. Also, the show was a great experience. It is always nice to be able to show my work to new people.
We have a lot of white oak to mill. It is all 5/4” rift sawn and gorgeous. The rays on some of these boards shout at you once they come off the joiner.
One of my favorite vacation activities is also one of the simplest. Stacking stones is the perfect balance of tension and calm. Sometimes the stacks are more complex, but on this day I felt two stones was enough. I pick a couple of rocks that I think will work well together, pick a site, and play around with them until they can stand on their own . . We are almost home now, but Kelly and I had an amazing time on Martha’s Vineyard. It was too short, but we are also excited to get back to the mill. We were able to find the graves of many of Kelly’s distant relatives, but not her direct ancestor from 5 generations back. That just means there is more exploration to be done.
That is not a painting. It is the actual unfiltered sunset out the window of our ferry to Martha’s Vineyard.
It’s good to be back in Boston even if it’s for a short trip. Within 2 hours I was honked at, walked a mile and a half, and rode the T. It feels just like old times.
The Makers Living Room is tonight at @pretentiousglass. Be sure to stop by if you are out for First Friday.
Deep thoughts with Archie