by Richard Weigand | Dec 15, 2017 | Richard Weigand
Sort of an overriding factor in furniture making is Wabi Sabi, the Japanese art of imperfection. It’s the hand of the maker. While I try to make a piece as perfect as I can, perfect for me includes imperfection. The differences between handmade and manufactured or...
by Richard Weigand | Dec 8, 2017 | Richard Weigand
Richard Weigand is a self taught wood worker with an impressive background reproducing Greene & Greene furniture. Weigand’s work is reflective and organic revealing inspiration from many greats in art and architecture such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene &...
by Richard Weigand | Dec 1, 2017 | Richard Weigand
The simple thought is, if beauty gives you pleasure you should surround yourself with it. The challenge is, to do something to create beauty or turn the things you are given that you see as not beautiful into something that is, in your opinion, beautiful. The...
by Richard Weigand | Nov 24, 2017 | Richard Weigand
People should have beauty in their lives – whatever it is to that person. I like helping people get that, something that is beautiful by their own standards. I enjoy helping others experience that feeling of being rich, that can be imparted by being surrounded by...
by Richard Weigand | Nov 16, 2017 | Richard Weigand
Everyone appreciates beauty, but nobody agrees on what is beautiful. There’s a house near us that is junked beyond belief and I think, my god, how does someone live in that? But I guarantee you, in some way and to some degree, the owner sees all that junk as...
by Richard Weigand | Nov 10, 2017 | Richard Weigand
Appreciation of beauty is part of our natural makeup, but it’s affected by a lot of things, like how you’re brought up… It comes down to a way of seeing. You can look at a piece and see that its color is perfect, that it’s fibonaccially perfect, that it does...
