Richard Oedel - Fine Furniture Master

Richard Oedel

Coming from an engineering and business background, the development and construction of form has always fascinated me.  And living in Salem Massachusetts for 22 years has instilled in me an appreciation and respect for the furnituremakers of the 17th and 18th centuries, who lived and worked only steps from my front door.  Now living in Boston, home in the 1700's to the Seymours and other master furnituremakers.  Some of the finest furniture in America was crafted here.  And still is...
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Past Member and Chairman Salem MA Historic District Commission
Graduated from The North Bennet Street School .   See them at www.nbss.org .
Worked with Jere Osgood, one of the  founding members of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters www.furnituremasters.org  and John LaGattuta, master chairmaker   
Member of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers SAPFM, and The Furniture
Society
Work published in:   Fine Woodworking magazine  Issues  172 and 190
  Woodshop News
University of New Hampshire Alumni Magazine

Featured in "Furniture Studio - Furniture Makers Exploring Digital Technologies",
                    The Furniture Society      Sept 2005      ISBN 0-9671004-2-9

Exhibited at:

Providence Fine Furniture Show
CraftBoston
Boston Architechtural Center
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Canterbury Shaker Village - Wood-days
Furniture Society "Curv-iture" Exhibit

Savannah College of Art and Design
Denver Museum of Art - Airport
Gallery of Art and Design - Raleigh/Durham
Florida Craftsmen Gallery
Hickory Museum of Art - NC
Houston Centre for Contemporary Craft

               Boston Athenaeum
            North Bennet Street School Gallery 
            Trinity Church Boston 
Workshops and demos
            Furniture Society Conference - Victoria B.C. Canada

Click here for details of bent lamination workshop