10/31/97 New Release - Page 3

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Tamalpais TimberWorks owner and master designer Bill Callahan.

 

Ten years ago, Bill had a burning desire to leave his computer profession of twenty years and pursue his love of art and nature. While playing with his son at a local playground, he noticed that the modular play structure employed a unique metal fastening system that joined the logs. Inspired by this, Bill began identifying his design objectives for a furniture assembly for building furniture. The resulting design objectives included: create a simple fastening assembly that would serve as the furniture's primary structural component, making the product easy to manufacture, simple to assemble, and affordable; create a quality furniture product that would not compromise workmanship, materials or construction, thus providing a lifetime of pleasure and service; and create a furniture product that would be environmentally correct in every way and attractive to people who love art, nature and the environment. Today, Arts & Culture embraces all of these objectives with beauty, style and substance.

 

Much of Bill's inspiration for designing and building furniture comes from his admiration of turn-of-the-century furniture designer Gustav Stickley, known for his Arts and Crafts or Mission furniture. "I have always admired the quality and integrity of Gustav Stickley's furniture, and my Arts & Culture furniture reflects the same high quality and distinctive simplicity of his and other Arts and Crafts-era designers" said Bill. "Arts & Culture furniture will be especially attractive to people who want their furniture to be a reflection of the things they love and value, particularly, art, nature and the environment," he added. Bill has also drawn inspiration from Japanese Tansu furniture, which also employs decorative metal designs and highly durable construction.

 

Tamalpais TimberWorks is interested in identifying crafts people who would like to collaborate on limited production furniture pieces. Tamalpais TimberWorks is also looking for environmentally oriented investors who can help bring this exciting product to market worldwide.

 

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