The International Arts & Crafts Movement’s revival is now as durable and long lasting as the style’s original heyday at the close of the 19th century. Along with the Aesthetic Movement and Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts furniture designers were the avant-garde, cutting-edge masters of style at that time.
Although I do some reproduction work of those masterful designers, such as C. R. Mackintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gustav Stickley and others, most of my commissions are my own designs, drawing inspiration from a broad range of works from Josef Hoffmann of the Viennese Secession to Charles and Henry Greene of Pasadena.
I strongly encourage new design work that draws inspiration from the original International Arts & Crafts Movement but, at the same time, is contemporary and meaningful to our present lifestyles and environment. All of my lumber sources conform to FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification guidelines and my standard finishes are either a non-V.O.C. emitting pure linseed oil or pure shellac.
Kevin Rodel