GREGORY CARK COLLECTION CAPABILITIES PRESENTATION -PDF
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Gregory Clark Custom Furniture has been building museum quality furniture since 1999 using both traditional artisanal methods like dovetails and mortise and tenon joinery as well as computer-navigated cutting techniques. As master craftsmen, they work with a wide variety of materials including wood, metal, glass, and stone to produce hand-finished pieces that meet their clients' visions. Founder Gregory Clark has decades of experience in furniture making and design, having apprenticed around the world and studied at RISD.
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- 1. GREGORY CLARK CUSTOM FURNITURE • Gregory Clark’s team has been building museum quality furniture since 1999. • Driving Focus: On time, On Budget, Meticulous attention to Detail. • Our approach utilizes the best of new world techniques, such as computer‐navigated cutting, combined with proven artisanal methods, such as dovetails, and mortise & tenon joinery. • We are Masters in fine woodworking. • We work in all materials including, metal, glass, stone, cement and Exotic materials. • We produce pieces with commercial, hand rubbed and custom fine finishes. • As master craftsmen and trained designers we are able to get into the minds of our customers as we strive to capture their vision, advise on methods, and produce a final product that exceeds their expectations. Macassar Ebony, Marquetry, French polish
- 7. Gregory Clark, an industrial designer by training, has worked with most materials and processes imaginable, from materials commonly crafted by artisan hands to large scale commercial methods used to create consumer products and architecture. No material or process intimidates us. The more unique and challenging the process or material, the more exciting it is for us. Our understanding of diverse methods and materials is helpful in supporting the creation of new and original works.
- 13. Founder Gregory Clark is a fourth generation artisan with a lifetime passion for furniture, art, craft, and creative design. He has traveled the world creating objects from furniture, to shoes, to consumer products. From artisan studios in Egypt, to restoring relics utilizing ancient techniques in Venice, to working beside modern production facilities throughout the Far East, Mexico, and South America, his curiosity for learning how to create great works has been insatiable. Mr. Clark received a degree in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), studied engineering at Brown University, studied Architectural and Artifact Conservation in Italy, and apprenticed with master shoe producers and designers in Asia. While at RISD he participated in course work with notable artists/designers including Dale Chilhuly, master Industrial Designer Marc Harrison, and renowned furniture designers Tage Frid and John Dunnigan.
- 14. Following are some of the materials and techniques we have utilized to build furnishings: • Natural Slabs • Exotic woods • Glass (Blown, Cast, Slumped and Hand Ground) • Concrete • Stone • Gold and Silver Leaf, Faux paint techniques • Metal (Cast, machined, forged, laser cut, formed, welded, and plated) • Stainless, gold, Silver, Pewter, Zinc, Steel, titanium • Leather, Parchment, Shagreen • Bone, Woolly Mammoth Ivory, Sea shell, Eggshell, Mother of Pearl • Textiles • Plastics (injection molded, fabricated, cast, and laminated) • Honeycomb and composite structures • Fiberglass , Kevlar, Cast Resin