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I'm the furniture maker and artist behind Benham Design Concepts. I specialize in building unique pieces of custom furniture and functional art. I enjoy the process of designing apiece just as much as I do building it, and bringing something new into the world. My main skillsets are based in woodworking; however, I'm a maker at heart and I am always looking to expand my skillset, to work with new materials, new ideas and come up with new designs.
I started Benham Design Concepts to turn my passion for making things into a business that will support my family and allow me to pursue my art of creating beautiful things
Design and Build Philosophy
Many makers have become well known for their style, you can look at a piece designed by the Green and Green brothers and see their signature elements. However, when someone asks me what style of furniture I make. This question always stumps me, as my style is always evolving. I would rather be known as the guy who is able to figure out how to make his furniture design fit the vision or inspire a new vision, rather than be pigeon holed into a specific style.
The next question I am asked is “Have you ever built this before”, and I can understand why this question is asked. Clients want to be reassured that I can pull it off. However, the fun for me is constantly evolving, and figuring out the next thing. I have found, all Skills are transferable, so whether I am making a new style door, bathroom vanity, or a bench for an entryway, I have the skills to pull it off, and the drive to learn.
I am proud that many of the pieces I have created for clients are one of a kind pieces of art, and each one has a story of how they came into existence.
The Back Story
I am a third generation craftsman, who grew up in a neighborhood of makers. On the corner was Jeff a custom cabinetmaker working out of his two-car garage. Next door was Mark, who ran two businesses out of a shop, built in his backyard. The first was building false teeth, and gold and porcelain crowns. The second was building clocks and all kinds of other cool things out of wood. Then there was my father, a carpenter by trade who turned bridge builder.
As I grew up, I worked alongside these makers learning their craft and their different techniques. My father took me with him on many trips to see how bridges where built and help me get a job in a welding fabrication shop, building steel earthquake restraints for bridges.
However, it was woodworking that captured my imagination, and is where I chose to hone my skill set. I have been studying the craft as long as I can remember. As a kid, I was more excited about the PBS woodworking TV shows, than watching Saturday morning cartoons. Some of my best lessons were learned by watching, This Old House, The Woodrights shop with Roy Underhill, and the New Yankee Workshop with Norm Abram. I watch and learned with passion and spent my idle hours in the garage emulating what I had seen, and honing my craft.
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