Here are (finally) the photos of the Ceruse Dining Room Table. The wood top on this table is ash with a ceruse finish, and the legs have been blackened. This table had its premiere at Makers Market at Socrates Sculpture Park this past summer, and inspired a whole new line of ceruse tables (photos coming soon…). Thanks again to Csaba and Robby for their exquisite woodwork and finishing.

Sara has been begging me to bring this table home.  Every time I make a new piece for the house, it ends up in a store or someone buys it before I can get it home.  I finally finished a new line of tables (photos will be up soon!) and was able to reclaim the Macassar Ebony Dining Room table and get it in the dining room before Christmas.

A great big thanks to Csaba, Istvan, and Laszlo, my superstar Hungarians next door, who do amazing woodwork.

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The 3rd annual Makers Market, a curated exposition / marketplace of contemporary design, is going to be at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens next Thursday, June 23 through Sunday, June 26.  I’m going to be showing some new designs and pieces there.  Come on down and say hi!

There are also some great free workshops happening at Socrates next weekend.  On Saturday there’s a sculpture workshop for kids called Trash to Treasure: Reclaimed Wood from Noon to 3pm.  Kids can design and build their own furnishings using reclaimed wood … Continue Reading

There are still some spaces available for the Spring Session #2 of Beginning Welding and Metal Sculpting Classes at Michael Daniel Metal Design in LIC-NYC !

Spring Session, #2: Thursdays
March 10 – April 7, 2011
Hours: 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Class is limited to 7 students.

Go to www.michaeldanielmetal.com/classes for more info and to register online.

For a long time now I have been promising Sara and Silas that I would bring home a new dining table.  Well, I finally finished it and as soon as it was done it ended up in a store.  Yes, the family is a little disappointed but happy to see it out in the world.  Silas even helped Sara choose the backdrops for the photos.

The Macassar Ebony Dining Table is available through Michael Daniel Metal Design and at Voos Furniture in Williamsburg.

More metal sculpting classes in 2010!

I just posted the schedule for the next round of classes on my site.  I’m offering a 5-week session starting Wednesday, January 27, and another 5-week session starting Wednesday, April 7.

Click here for the Spring 2010 schedule.

Just a quick note that I’m teaching two sessions of Beginning Welding and Metal Sculpting this fall.  Spaces are still available.  The course description is available on my site here.  Please feel free to contact me with any questions about the class.

And Happy Back to School Day everyone!

Another big thanks to Matt Ianni and Leslie Fram from 101.9 RXP for having me on their show a few weeks ago.  I just received the mp3 of my appearance and I’m posting it here.

Michael Daniel Metal Design on 101.9 RXP

My neighbor, Laszlo Sallay, exhibited at ICFF this year and asked me to design a base for one of the table tops that he wanted to display in the show.

Shagreen Art Booth at ICFF 2009

Laszlo is an amazingly talented woodworker who does a lot of great veneer finishes, restoration work and came up with this new design on wood called Shagreen.  Shagreen is basically a faux sharkskin-type look and texture but is 100% wood.

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I started teaching welding and metal sculpting again last week.  I’ve got a great group of beginning students, who are all eager to learn.  It’s been a while since I’ve taught, but it’s nice to see students get excited about learning skills that I now do without even thinking about it.  It reminds me of how excited I was when I took my first welding class so many years ago at SVA.  I knew after the first session that I wanted to do this the rest of my life.