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ABOUT

I love to make things

I am interested in designing and building furniture and other things blending form and function. These have ranged from dining tables and chairs, buffets, fly-fishing landing nets, and sofas to custom tools, a bumper for a Jeep and most recently, a wood fired pizza oven utilizing bricks from the 1850s.

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I especially like mixing wood and metal in my pieces. Wood gives a piece warmth, it can be smooth, rough, sculpted and shaped into pleasing and sometimes challenging forms. Working with wood is always a reductive process - cutting and shaping. Metal can be the opposite of wood, but in its' cold strength can serve as a frame and structure in ways wood is typically not asked to do. Working with metal can be a reductive or an additive process - the coalescence of molten metal to form a weld is additive in way that is impossible with wood - depending upon the needs of the piece.

PORTFOLIO

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Black cherry and welded steel modern design chair
Coopered and tapered black walnut, American holly, and oil-flamed welded steel chair at the Ohio Craft Museum, Best of 2018
Black walnut dining chairs in progress
Black walnut and American holly small two-drawer chest
Black walnut burl and oil-flamed welded steel elipse table
Black cherry, black walnut and oil-flamed welded steel buffet
Landing nets for fly-fishing
Defects to the Seat of Power - Black walnut and oil-flamed welded steel director's chair
Black cherry and welded steel stools
An example of the sketches that I draw in the design process
Shaping dining chair seats in black walnut using Nicholson cabinet maker's rasps
Detail of a coopered and tapered black walnut, American holly, and oil-flamed welded steel chair
Black cherry and welded steel bench
Black walnut and oil-flamed welded steel step-stool
Black walnut and black cherry urns to hold creamation ashes
Black cherry, ash and welded steel fan-back chair
Osage orange and ash short stool
Sculpted stool in American holly and black walnut
Black cherry and welded steel high stool
Black cherry and welded steel garden tools
Argentinian style welded steel grill
Black cherry and and oil-flamed welded steel three legged stool with MIG patterned texture
Black cherry and oil-flamed welded steel hall table
Black walnut and oil-flamed welded steel two-shelf buffet
Stool in American ash
Coopered and tapered black walnut, American holly, and oil-flamed welded steel chair at the Bascom in Highlands, NC
Small scale mock-up of a black walnut dining table
Pizza oven, welded steel and 1850's era brick salvaged from a collapsed summer kitchen chimney
Black walnut dining benches
Black cherry table leg-joint detail
Hall table in salvaged mahogany and oil-flamed welded steel
Hall table in black cherry and oil-flamed welded steel

CONTACT

Contact me for custom orders

I'd love to discuss designing and building a piece for you.

Pleasantville, OH
740-407-8804
robert@troupwoodandmetal.com
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