Bok Read, Furniture Maker, Exhibits @ American Fine Craft Show

Media, Pa.-based fine furniture maker Bok Read joins 89 other artisans and artists at the fifth American Fine Craft Show at the Brooklyn Museum November 18-19, 2017.

About one of his organic wood tables in local black walnut Read said: “If a tree grew out of the floor it might look like one of my tables. The top is removable. Trees don’t have horizontal flat parts so I had to make one.”

He added, about a skill he uses on tabletops to achieve the look of a faux tablecloth: “I like the layering, a technique begun in the middle ages, when linenfold paneling became popular. Denmark, Germany and England each had a style that imitated, in wood, neatly folded linen. It covered entire rooms in 1’x 2’ panels made to show off the artisan’s layering skills.”

Visitors to the show can take in the magnificent exhibitions at the Museum. Concurrent ones include “Rodin at the Brooklyn Museum: The Body in Bronze,” that opens November 17; “Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt;” “Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo,” and “Arts of Korea.”

For more information visit www.brooklyncraftshow.com.

Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

Directions: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org...

Hours: Saturday Nov. 19: 11 am – 6 pm. Sunday, Nov. 20: 11 am-6 pm

Tickets Include general admission to Brooklyn Museum