From a simple table lamp to a complex media center, no detail is neglected, no choice made lightly. A broad palette combines respect for classic furniture forms with inventive solutions to design problems. I have over 30 years' experience in the San Francisco Bay area, designing and building fine furniture, accessories, and art pieces.
I take pieces from concept to completion for private clients, and I welcome the opportunity to work with designers and architects seeking superior quality for their designs and their clients. We offer consultation on materials, hardware and fabrication techniques, and can provide mock-ups, prototypes and other tools to help you realize your ideas.
We're conversant in a wide range of techniques, from veneering with the latest vacuum technology to the carving of a Queen Anne ball-and-claw foot. Materials are carefully selected and combined to enhance form; veneers are laid up to establish a rhythm that emphasizes the proportions of each piece.
I take pieces from concept to completion for private clients, and I welcome the opportunity to work with designers and architects seeking superior quality for their designs and their clients. We offer consultation on materials, hardware and fabrication techniques, and can provide mock-ups, prototypes and other tools to help you realize your ideas.
We're conversant in a wide range of techniques, from veneering with the latest vacuum technology to the carving of a Queen Anne ball-and-claw foot. Materials are carefully selected and combined to enhance form; veneers are laid up to establish a rhythm that emphasizes the proportions of each piece.
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Surfaces and containers; all furniture belongs to one or another classification (or both, like the desk.) Tables occupy the first category, of course: they support. They provide places for offerings and gatherings, for display or convenience; to hold a party, or a lamp, or a glass or a book. Tables, in their limitless variety of style and purpose.
Of all your furniture, the cabinet is the piece you interact with most directly. It's designed to hold your stuff. Its purpose requires that you touch it, manipulate it. Thus it affords you various satisfactions: the tactile, in a carefully-worked edge or surface, or the silky action of a drawer, riding on wooden slides.
The dining table deserves its own section. No other piece of furniture in our lives is so freighted, so weighted with associations. It, or its homely counterpart the kitchen table: an open place, an agora, around which we play out our lives, play Monopoly. Wake your brother. Do your homework. Emulate Fezziwig, furnishing forth.
These pieces are for fun- as if I wasn't already having fun. You will notice that they largely have a theatrical connection. Nutcrackers are toys with a theatrical character; the animation built into them lets them "act." I want to build more: Falstaff, Pierrot, Rigoletto, Richard III; Bette Davis in All About Eve.
It is the long history of humankind those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. Although most of my work is built to my own designs, I welcome the opportunity to collaborate with, and learn from, design professionals looking for meticulous workmanship and sound counsel.
Reviews (2)
Gene Stangel
Sep 19, 2020
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Woodworking craftsmanship at its very BEST!
My wife & I purchased a solid walnut dining table many years ago and loved it so much we planned, but never got around to, finding living room furniture to match. I was introduced to Kent via a friend in the interior design business who told me he could build me ANYTHING I wanted. And he DID! With some discussions on my interest, Kent did some sketches, some minor tweaks and I commissioned him to make 6 pieces of solid walnut furniture in a “monastic” style.
The end result simply blew me away. His craftsmanship is simply amazing. Several of the
My wife & I purchased a solid walnut dining table many years ago and loved it so much we planned, but never got around to, finding living room furniture to match. I was introduced to Kent via a friend in the interior design business who told me he could build me ANYTHING I wanted. And he DID! With some discussions on my interest, Kent did some sketches, some minor tweaks and I commissioned him to make 6 pieces of solid walnut furniture in a “monastic” style.
The end result simply blew me away. His craftsmanship is simply amazing. Several of the
Laurie Brown
Sep 11, 2014
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"Kent Odell produces exquisite furniture. His designs are intelligent, beautiful and demonstrate the finest of craftsmanship. This is furniture that is of heirloom quality, it is fine art. In addition to the high quality of his product, he is a pleasure to work with, both during the collaborative design process, and throughout the production process. I have a number of Odell designs in my home, from small pieces (a hand-carved mirror frame) to large free-standing pieces ( a Green and Green inspired sideboard) that are a pleasure to look at and to touch. I highly recommend Mr. Odell."
