Winner of People's Choice, Peer and Best in Show awards during the 2005 Northern Woods Exhibition, sponsered by the Minnesota Woodworkers Guild. Tra Vigne (Italian for 'among the vines') is the third in a series of wine cellarettes. If features gentle curves, jasmine vine inlays and glasswork, carving, brass, and patinated copper to produce a natural, tranquil design. The piece will accommodate a case of wine and provides ample cabinet and drawer space for coffee, teas and other sundries. Three curved Bubinga cabinets with variably spaced dovetail joinery rest on a curved Maple saber leg stand which, in turn, features splined, through tenon joinery and carved post tops. A jasmine vine is inlaid into the center cabinet curved drawer fronts. This design is repeated in the side cabinet copper foiled waterglass doors. The doors also feature patinated copper recessed pulls and both the doors and drawer pulls have bradd pinned joinery. The cabinet interior features wine racking, coffee and tea bins, and storage space. The curved lower shelf features patinated copper and a removable serving tray. Measures 65" x 14" x 48" H

An organic, sculpted table with floating stretchers and double wedged through tenon joinery. The carved verticals resemble young Calla Lillies.

Two wine cabinets, each with four doors. 100"Hx36"Wx36"D each. The cabinets are built into a pair of niches in a brick wall.
Bubinga,copper foiled stained glass, patinated copper, brass, silver solder onlays.

Built especially for my sister, Lin Nicolas, in celebration of our family reunion.

This piece is similar to the rubicon, but longer, lower and deeper.

Made from quarter-sawn bubinga, figured maple and wenge, l'reunite features variably spaced dovetails, splined through tenons, double brass pinned mortise and tenon joinery, copper foiled water glass, inlays, and patinated copper with silver solder onlays. It is finished with oil and wax.
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The interior features cyma curve glass shelving.

Winner of People's Choice Award in the 2004 Northern Woods Exhibition. Featured in the December 2004 issue of 'Woodwork' magazine.

The Rubicon is the second in a series of cellarettes. This buffet will accommodate one case of wine, a variety of teas, and provide space for wine glasses, tea china, and other sundries.

Two mirror image Bubinga cabinets with variably spaced dovetail joinery rest side by side in a Maple saber leg frame, which features wedged through-tenon joinery. The cabinet doors feature constrasting recessed pulls and use copper foiled water glass to create an ivy vine design.

The two cabinet interiors feature wine racking, five tea bins, glass china display, a removable serving tray and five storage drawers. The ivy vine theme is repeated in the carved tea bins and drawer fronts.

The lower shelf, door pulls and serving tray employ chemical copper patination. This combines with the water glass, carving and ivy theme to reinforce the natural, tranquil feeling of the piece.