Stratton Magazine – Southern Vermont's Journal of Living

Stratton Magazine – Southern Vermont's Journal of Living

Celebrating Southern Vermont for 45 Years… In Every Season

Artists Palette

More News From the Metal Shop »

Sam’s been busy since Open Studio. Today he finished this new steel table base for a client of his and tomorrow, we will make the table top, which will be painted white. It should be an interesting look. Click the photos to enlarge them. He started by drawing the base in his cad program and …

A Little More Detail…Copper Top Table…Claro Walnut Table »

 As I was a little rushed setting up for open studio, I feel a couple of our pieces that we finished last week deserved a few more comments and photos, so here they are, along with some other photographic highlights from the weekend. Click the photos to enlarge them. Here is simply a better photo …

Open Studio Update 5/27 »

We had an excellent first day of open studio weekend saturday. We started off with a long list and a pretty big pile of disorganized stuff friday morning, but by 5:30, we had it all together with the doors locked and Kit and I were sitting by the pond. We added the leather seats to …

New Blog Format »

After all my whining about the new blogger interface, I thought it would be appropriate if I also said something really nice about Google too.  They do amazing things for me and for Dorset Custom Furniture, like hosting about 1500 of my photos on the Internet for free. This morning, they sent me a friendly …

20 Years of Open Studio »

This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of Vermont Open Studio Weekend. We took a couple years off when we moved from Arlington to Dorset, but I think this is the 16th or 17th year for us.  It’s a great event with over 250 artists across Vermont who will be opening their studios to the public …

A Square Mahogany Coffee Table »

This custom mahogany coffee table is ready to go now. It’s based on a design by Ramsay Gourd and we have made several of them over the years.  This one features some particularly nice figured mahogany from our friends at Irion Lumberand a rich reddish finish to be friendly a bubinga piano that resides in …

just this past week … »

 well, i think i’m going to be writing on this one for a minute or two.  i have not posted much new stuff lately, and today, in looking at my pictures, i realize why.  the last two weeks have been pretty intense, all in a good way.  exactly one week ago today, i took a …

the kitchen island … over and out »

5/1 12 … ok, the curly maple island is ready to go … we’re going to move it in one piece to the site tomorrow, weather permitting.  it was an interesting project, more complicated than it looks, and we’re looking forward to seeing it later this week with its granite top and sink installed in …

a hanging chestnut swing »

 well ok, this was a fun one … this week we’ll deliver it to the walnut trestle table house we visited back in december.  we’ve got a curved project coming up there, so we’ll get to check our templates for the next project while we are there.  click the photos to enlarge them.   check …

real spring, 4/24 »

   real spring is here !! after a pleasant, but strange, ‘fake spring’ back in march where the temp went up into the 70′s and 80s, now it’s really real spring.  the leaves are just starting to pop; the asparagus are up and we’re eating them; the crab apple tree went from greenish to PINK …

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