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
Chairman - 2010 Furniture Society Conference in Boston at MIT
Member of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters
Featured in "Furniture Studio
- Furniture Makers Exploring Digital Technologies",
The
Furniture Society
Sept 2005
ISBN 0-9671004-2-9
Exhibited at:
Massachusetts Historical Society
Providence Fine
Furniture Show
CraftBoston
Boston
Architectural Center/College
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
St. Botolph Club, Boston
North
Bennet Street School Gallery
Trinity Church Boston
Currier Museum of Art
New Hampshire Artists Association
Messler Gallery - Center for Furniture Craftsmanship
New Hampshire Historical Society
Lamont Gallery - Phillips Exeter Academy
Workshops and demos
CWB Custom Woodworking Conference March 2009
Furniture Society Conferences - Victoria
B.C. Canada, Purchase NY, Boone, NC
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