MOVING SALE!

We are moving to Newburgh, NY and are having a huge garage sale to lighten our load! Hardwood slabs and scraps, tools, books and other miscellany. Sat Dec 5 - Tues Dec 9. BY APPOINTMENT PLEASE so that we can respect Covid protocols.

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WeARTogether

Dear Friends,

Through this period of disorientation, distance, grieving and now anger and protest, one huge source of comfort has been connection with the ones we love. More than ever, we hold tight the things that matter.

At my studio, our work is about love of craft, respect for the integrity of local hardwoods, and passion for producing high quality, enduring custom objects. Collaboration is at the center of what we do.

Recently, Dan Weise and Kalene Rivers in Beacon came up with a terrific way for people to show support for artists and small businesses together in a community - a project called WearTogether.  A graphic artist and a business team up to design a t-shirt and then offer it for sale to supporters for a period of two weeks.  Proceeds are split between the artist, the business and The Brooklyn Press, a screen printer in Newburgh, NY.

Check out the t-shirt that Randall Martin designed!  The shirt will be on sale only until June 15th and will be mailed out during the week of June 22.  It would be a thrill to see you wearing it!

With care,

Jessica

Source: https://weartogether.shop/products/randall...

Beautiful Scrap Sale 2019!

Attention wood lovers!

In celebration of spring, reinvention, new growth, and in preparation for our studio move this summer (stay tuned for more info!), we are emptying the shelves for our Beautiful Scrap Sale!  This year, the event will take place over two weekends: 

Sat April 27 + Sun April 28
and
Sat May 18 + Sun May 19
from 10AM - 6PM 

The sale includes a little bit of everything Wickham: interesting hardwood leftovers and cutoffs from our furniture work, small live edge slabs, rippings, cutting board seconds and other woodscrap ephemera...  Both natural edge and square edge. Everything priced to sell.  All from the sustainably-sourced, locally processed trees that we specialize in: black walnut, black cherry, white oak, red cedar, white elm... and others.

In addition to Beautiful Scrap, for the first time we will be selling full-size premium live-edge slabs from our inventory.  Please note that pricing for the full size slabs is market rate, no deep discounts. For a preview, please see:

www.wickham.com/slabsale

And finally, back by popular demand, we will be selling heirloom tomato seedlings! Organic, non-GMO, indeterminate varieties.  Will need staking.  Best flavor on the planet.

Come early for best selection!  Hope to see you!

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Atlas Spring Market in Newburgh

Thrilled to be participating in the first Atlas Spring Market happening over Mother’s Day weekend, May 11 + 12 from 10AM-5PM at 11 Spring Street in Newburgh, NY. This innovative market will feature 50+ makers, growers, collectors, educators all focused on their #craft and connecting to nature. Food + drink too! Come celebrate the season and the opening of the 17 Spring Street Garden. Keep an eye out for the raffle - all proceeds will benefit Hudson Valley Seed & Newburgh Urban Farm and Food Initiative. Hope to see you there!

419 feet up in the air!

We delivered a lofty piece this week to the Mario M. Cuomo bridge in Tarrytown, NY (also known as the “new Tappan Zee Bridge”)… a carefully designed perch for the Peregrine Falcons who nest at the top of the bridge every year. The site sees some pretty harsh conditions (full sun exposure, wind, rain etc) and the request from the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation was for us to use the highest quality locally sourced white oak. These birds have some spectacular quartersawn figure on their front porch!

Note that the perch will actually be installed once the weather gets a little warmer… hopefully in spring 2019… stay tuned for updates!

Hyper-local Sourcing: Tate Library Bench

We installed a project with deep roots this week. A 16’ long bench for the renovated #tatelibrary at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale NY. We used wood that we milled from a majestic #black oak tree that stood on campus and came down in 2007! We quartersawed the wood (on the football field!), dried it and have been keeping it safe waiting for just the right project. Thanks to @architecture.research.office for finding a way to weave it into this gorgeous renovation!  The new bench sits about 30 feet from where the oak tree grew!

Duke West Union Featured in Architectural Record + Architectural Digest

Excited to see some fantastic press about Grimshaw's Duke West Union! We were so excited to design and fabricate 34 pieces for the project.

In the November 2016 issue of Architectural Record, Beth Broome, the magazine's managing editor, gave the project a glowing writeup.

In the February 2017 issue of Architectural Digest!, the project was was honored as one of the 9 best new university buildings around the world in 2016.

 

OUR 18 Wheeler Delivery to Duke University!

Very excited to complete our installation at Grimshaw's Duke West Union in Durham, NC!  We made a total of 34 pieces for the brand new student union building.  

Our work included:

Cambridge Inn white oak and blackened steel iPad Tables

Quilted Black Walnut Private Dining Table

East Wing Black Walnut Y-Tables

Maple and stainless steel butcherblock tables on casters for the Test Kitchen

18 foot live edge white oak bartop at the Devil's Krafthaus pub.

WORK:SHOP WINTER MARKET RETURNS TO BEACON!

We are very excited to host the fourth annual work:shop winter market on Dec 10 & 11, 2016!  This event, features 20 amazing artisans selling "museum-quality" holiday gifts in a festive setting.  New this year Homespun Foods will set up "Holiday Homespun" an on-site cafe selling sweet and savory snacks and thick hot chocolate for hungry shoppers as well as packaged holiday goodies to give as gifts!

For details, visit www.workshopwintermarket.com 

Deconstructed in Fine Woodworking Magazine!

Very honored to have our Cedar Garden Bench featured in Fine Woodworking magazine(June 2016)!  We originally designed and built a series of these outdoor benches in Port Orford Cedar for the Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, NY.  The design caught the eye of one of the editors at Fine Woodworking and they commissioned us to discuss and demonstrate the construction of the piece.  What a thrill to be seen in such esteemed company…!

Full PDF of the article.

 

 

Going, going… gone!

The Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, NY is embarking on an ambitious project – the construction of “The Studios” a new building dedicated to the study of art and music! Learn more here: www.randolphschoolgiving.org

Come to their art auction,”Expansion”, on April 30th at The Howland Center in Beacon to help raise funds! Very proud to have contributed one of our black walnut X-tables to the live auction.

Hope to see you there!

(Thanks to Ethan Harrison for the fantastic photo and to Daniel Weise for all around coordination and putting together this lovely postcard!)