His studio/shop is where this Virginia furniture maker likes to spend his time working on his next projects. Designing a new furniture piece in collaboration with a client or working on a reproduction of some kind. A recent commission won him the honor of reproducing some Greene & Greene designed furniture in a … Read more His studio/shop is where this Virginia furniture maker likes to spend his time working on his next projects. Designing a new furniture piece in collaboration with a client or working on a reproduction of some kind.

A recent commission won him the honor of reproducing some Greene & Greene designed furniture in a Greene & Greene designed home. The Bolton house in Pasadena, CA. Style 1900 recently featured the Bolton house in its winter 2010-2011 issue. You can see one of these furniture reproductions in this feature. As David Mathias (author of Greene & Greene Furniture, Poems of Wood and Light) said in his blog entry for Custom Made, Richard received the Holy Grail of custom furniture making – reproducing Greene & Greene designed furniture for a Greene and Greene designed home.

Richard says, "I’ve always admired expertise and anything really well built especially older pieces with their sense of history. Not fancy things, just good craftsmanship with lots of care put into it. I particularly like the turn of the last century when the American dream meant building things that would last. Great design, great materials and great craftsmanship.”

John Ruskin was an early inspiration for Richard. Ruskin believed that something should be what it appeared to be, not pretend to be something else. The honesty, quality and care of the Arts and Crafts movement were key ingredients that appealed to Richard.