NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1983, No. 43, $3.50 Making ... - Wood Tools

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Martin In this gate-leg table, above, Grierson of London
marries the lattice of its ebonized-birch base with the
inlaid birch and sycamore-maple grid of its top, an
effective adaptation of the Arts and Crafts motifs of
C.R. Mackintosh. The 60-in. by 42-in. top folds to a
neat 7X in. wide, whereupon you see that the tabletop
grid is carried through to the underside of the leaves.
After 14 years as an industrial designer of office furniture
and architectural woodwork, Grierson, 49, began
eight years ago to make his own straightforward designs.
He favors practical furniture which nonetheless
evidences the special care and value that should come
from its being handmade.
Sandy MacKilligan's 52-in. high liquor cabinet, left, with
rwo sets of doors, front and back, is of complicated construction:
the cross-shaped cross-section of the legs makes
for rather busy corners at the top of the cabinet. But the
motif, carried through in the aniline-dyed sycamore-maple
veneers, inspires striking graphics. MacKilligan, 52, of
Puttenham, Surrey, has made a series of these cabinets,
differently patterned in different colored woods.
Photos: Les Rachline