Furniture · Teaching · Lewisville, North Carolina

Brandon York

Furniture with honest construction and visible joinery, made in a small shop outside Winston-Salem. I also teach people to build their own.

Work

Selected pieces

A large woodshop under tall skylights, with a planer, bandsaw, table saw and lumber racks around an open concrete floor — The classroom shop

Three-legged stool with a striped end-grain seat and tapered dark legs, backlit on a concrete shop floor — Three-legged stool

Turned bowl in spalted maple with a natural edge and dark spalting lines, resting on the lathe bed — Spalted turned bowl

Oval walnut tray carved with a Navy chief anchor emblem, set on a live-edge walnut slab — Carved walnut tray

Two drawknives with ash handles and a leather sheath laid out on a maple workbench — At the bench

Classes

Sawtooth School for Visual Art · Winston-Salem

For veterans

Service to Craft

A woodworking class for veterans. Each student chooses a piece worth keeping and builds it start to finish, with real joinery and real tools.

Seating

Three-Legged Stool

Build a sturdy three-legged stool and learn the angles, layout and fitting that make a splayed-leg piece sit flat on any floor.

Casework

Shaker Hanging Shelf

A three-tier hanging shelf in the Shaker tradition: simple lines, careful proportion and joinery that shows how it's made.

Dates and sign-ups are listed with each session at sawtooth.org.

About

I build furniture I'd want to live with for decades: plain, well made and easy to repair.

I'm a retired Navy Chief and a fine arts student, working from a 24 by 30 foot shop at home in Lewisville. My work leans on Shaker, Scandinavian and mid-century furniture, and on geometry more than ornament.

Teaching is a big part of the work. I want people to leave a class with a piece they value and the confidence to make the next one.

Joinery: Tight, traditional joints where they matter, and machines where they make the work more accurate.
Form: Restrained lines, honest proportions, no farmhouse styling.
Repair: Built so it can be fixed, refinished and handed down.
Interests: Chairs, stools, benches, shelves and wooden planes.

Contact

hello@brandonyork.studio

Questions about classes, teaching or collaborating. I'm not taking furniture commissions right now.