LA Times: After an L.A. windstorm, he used fallen trees to make furniture with a story behind it

"...After a 2011 windstorm destroyed over 1,200 Pasadena trees, architect Chris Peck launched Keita Design to transform fallen urban wood into handcrafted furniture.

Keita Design’s young woodworkers use sustainable practices to create unique pieces, keeping natural imperfections and warps instead of discarding them as waste...."

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https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2026-04-08/keita-design-fallen-trees-get-new-life-as-midcentury-inspired-furnishings-in-la

#craftsmanship #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle #woodworking

A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-truck-drive-spent-20-years-making-this-astonishing-scale-model-of-every-single-building-in-new-york-city-180988443/

#HackerNews #truckdriver #NYC #model #making #art #NYCarchitecture #craftsmanship

This Old Table Looked Useless… Then It Became a Masterpiece

From a scratched, worn wooden table to a flawless epoxy river masterpiece — watch the full step-by-step transformation unfold

#EpoxyRiverTable #Woodworking #EpoxyResin #DIYFurniture
#TableTransformation
#BeforeAndAfter
#WoodworkingProject
#FurnitureMakeover
#Craftsmanship

AO Vimana Notebook

350 gsm matte cover page
115 gsm inner pages
Inner pages are by blank

https://shop.ancient-origins.net/collections/stationery-mugs/products/ao-vimana-notebook
#Notebook #Stationery #ArtisanCrafts #NotebookLover #StationeryAddict #Craftsmanship