Black Clover Designs: August 2010

2010/08/18

A flavor of the work… MOTTE

Chair Pair
Title MOTTE 2009
Size 20in D 18in W 29.5in H max. dims. single
Materials Salvaged Oak, Bamboo, Steel and Hair Cotter Pins
Mike Stofiel

PALIMPSEST

Side Table
Title PALIMPSEST 2010
Size 27in L 7in W 17in H
Materials Steel , Salvaged Oak Beams, Jute Woven Rope, Bamboo, Salvaged Masonite, Steel Cotter Pins

POLDER

Coffee Table
Title POLDER 2009
Size 63in L 16in W 17in H
Materials Steel , Salvaged Oak Beams, Salvaged Misc. Hardware, Salvaged Maple Flooring
Mike Stofiel

IN-SITU

Hall Table
Title IN-SITU 2010
Size 64in L 19in W 42in H
Materials Salvaged Oak , Salvaged Misc. Hardware, Salvaged Acrylic, Cork Flooring, Cherry, Jute Rope, a Tree and planting material
Mike Stofiel

STEEL, OAK, AND A TREE

Table
Title STEEL, OAK, AND A TREE 2009
Size 49in L 17in W 16in H
Materials Salvaged Oak, Steel and Tree and planting material
Mike Stofiel

Center for Turning and Furniture Design - IUP

"The department’s Center for Turning and Furniture Design is the nation’s first university program to integrate turning and furniture design with a studio emphasis.

The center’s program offers instruction in newly renovated and award-winning facilities. Focusing on the professional development of the emerging artist, the center offers a broad range of instruction in concept development, design and drawing, turning, joinery, and construction applications with the goal of developing entrepreneurs whose output is marked by artistic design and fine craftsmanship. Graduates will be conversant in lathe turning and furniture design/building processes, contemporary digital technologies, and issues related to recycling, reinvention, and renewal."

http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=5195

Manipulated landscape Imagery - West Penn Trail

Much of my work includes imagery I have taken on hikes around the Indiana, Pa region. The photos are of “natural” scenery. The photos are edited and incorporated as laser etchings onto wood furniture structures. This scene is destined for a wall hung/ room divider made from salvaged flooring and cut-offs from my studio work.

Green Design: Harvest to Use - IUP Magazine

"Just outside the Robertshaw building on IUP’s South Campus sits a twenty-by-forty-foot woodshed built by students in May as part of a three-week architectural woodworking class"

Day 1: May 4, 2009—On the first day of the architectural woodworking class, posts and beams prepared for the wood-drying shed back in 2005 were fit together in the Center for Turning and Furniture Design.