
2010 Woodworking Class Schedule
posted
Two New Designs :Tsuba Table and
Blanket Chest
New! - On the Drawing Board
As a small independent furniture
maker Darrell Peart can offer a degree of flexibility and an attention
to detail not commonly found in larger shops. He routinely works with
a client to adapt the Greene & Greene or Arts & Crafts styles
to a more contemporary function. Darrell's influences as a furniture
maker/designer have been many. It's within the Arts & Crafts Movement
(Craftsman, Mission) that he feel at home though. The ideals of John
Ruskin and William
Morris have been an inspiration to him. The movements many designers
(and craftsmen) such as Gustav
Stickley, Harvey
Ellis,
CFA Voysey, and CR
Mackintosh, have all played a part in Darrell's development. But
it's the Pasadena architects, Charles and Henry Greene ( Greene
and Greene) that have captivated him the most.
"The furniture from their Ultimate Bungalow period (Gamble, Thorsen,
Pratt, and Blacker Houses) represents not only the best from the American
Arts & Crafts Movement but also some of the most sensitive and
thoughtful designs ever produced. Charles Greene's blending of the
American Arts & Crafts style with Asian influences was nothing
less than divine."
"I thoroughly enjoy and take great pride in my
work. With attention to detail and reliance upon traditional joinery
you can expect a piece of furniture I build to last generations."

"The Guru of Greene and Greene"
....The
Robb Report Collection December 2005

"Darrell Peart finds satisfaction
turning dreams into reality with his finely-crafted furniture that is
worthy of Greene and Greene's finest Pasadena Bungalow's" Style
1900 Magazine Spring/Summer 2007

"The popularity of Arts & Crafts style furniture
just seems to grow, as more and more designer-makers adapt its details
to original works. Darrell Peart is an authority on those details......"
Barb Siddiqui
WoodCentral

"Darrell certainly has a strong fan base of both
clients- who can wait as long a year for a piece- and woodworkers-who
look to him for inspiration and instruction" Ronald J Goldman
Woodworker West March-April
2006

"Darrell Peart's furniture is more obviously Greene
& Greene, including reproductions. His Gamble dining table is a
wonderful achievement." David Mathias (author
of upcoming book on Greene and Greene furniture) blogging for Popular
Woodworking Magazine

"Author and very accomplished furnituremaker Darrell
Peart"...... Hewn
and Hammer

"The ideals of the Arts &
Crafts Movement support the work of individual craftsman designing and
producing quality pieces in their own shops. Nowhere is this ideal more
realized than with the work of Darrell Peart, Furnituremaker."
... Alexandria Arnold - Arts and Crafts Movement Review

Excerpt from Woodworkers
Journal online interview--- October 2004
"That's what I really enjoy. Studying Greene and Greene in minute
detail, writing the book has given me ideas for things I want to try.
It's made me appreciate the genius of Charles Greene, but also makes
me wonder where all his ideas came from. It's almost enough to give
me an inferiority complex." ....Darrell Peart
"An inferiority complex? I don't think so; not with the
caliber of work that Darrell Peart produces. "
...Michael
Dresdner
