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About Greg Aanes Furniture |
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Bellingham showroom hours 8am-5pm Monday through Friday, or call for an after hours appointment |
I
began working with wood as a finish carpenter on high-end houses in Aspen,
Colorado in the 70s, and later was fortunate enough to work with a
Norwegian immigrant furniture maker. Even as a child growing up in Eastern
Iowa I loved visiting Amish furniture shops, finding the endless variety
of wood fascinating. In 1980 I moved to the Northwest, and worked in local
cabinet shops to support the opening of my first shop in 1981. I have
always been largely self-taught through observation and experimentation,
but once I focused on the goal of making furniture as a career I began
taking workshops with furniture makers such as James Krenov, Thomas Moser,
and Isaburo Kawada. Since then that first tiny shop, where I worked alone
in the woods of Whatcom County, has now evolved into a 4,000 sq. ft shop of five woodworkers in
downtown Bellingham, Washington
which is now
looking to expand to twice its current size. Greg Aanes Furniture is
located 90 miles north of Seattle and 55 miles south of Vancouver
British Columbia, and our
furniture is sold through high-quality galleries nationally and
internationally,
as well as four premier fine craft shows a year, principally on the
west coast,
and our showroom in Bellingham. Local
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I believe furniture is an echo of tradition expressed in organic lines. Customers often speak of my furniture as going well with many existing styles. A professor of design at Western Washington University identified five styles all working well together in the Brendan Rocker. Yet my furniture has its own identity of graceful lines, reverence for wood, and appropriateness to people. This look is best defined as the 'Northwest Style.'
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Created, owned and operated by Greg our shop is a diverse group with many talents individually and even more collectively. We thrive on challenge, solutions and hard work. Each of us does everything from sanding, milling, assembly, and finishing to answering the phone. Our energies have been in chairs since 1984, with much of that time spent refining the Brendan Rocker and The Pacific Dining Chair. Esthetics, ergonomics, and woodworking are all equally important in this challenging furniture genre. Craftsmanship of the hand is crucial to our furniture, particularly in assembly and finishing. However we use modern technology (primarily in the milling of the parts) to keep the price affordable as well as limiting wear and tear on our aging bodies. Many of our machines we designed and built for specific processes in the shop. In the year 2000 we re-entered the broader furniture market with several dining and end table designs, and as our space expansion permits we will be introducing bookcases and other new designs. Go to Furniture. Please do not hesitate to call us up and chat. When you invest in our work you are investing in heirloom furniture built with true modern American craftsmanship. We want you to truly pleased.
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North Cascades and the San Juan Islands, from which I draw much of my inspiration. |
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