Albert Einstein’s globe and stand

This is Albert Einstein’s personal globe that is displayed in his office at Princeton. The Center for Conservation of Art and Historic Artifacts conserved the globe, and I treated the stand, which had been broken and poorly repaired many times. This is a pre-treatment photo…click on the link below. (Photography courtesy of CCAHA)

See: http://www.ccaha.org/uploads/media_items/november-december-2012-focus.original.pdf

New recreation of early 19th frame and eglomize glass mat

This frame, with stamped edge detail and custom made gilded twists, and the eglomise glass mat, was commissioned for a needlework of the same period.

Conservation of secrétaire à abattant, by Michel Bouvier

http://www.philaathenaeum.org/bonaparte/page1.html

I carried out conservation on this secrétaire à abattant, originally owned by Joseph Bonaparte, is in the collection of the Philadelphia Athenaeum.

Recreation of 19th century globe stand

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Mahogany and brass globe stand made for early 19th century French globe in the collection of the Union League of Philadelphia.

The Elastic Chair

My reproduction of the ‘fully elastic’ armchair

One of my areas of research is the chair maker, Samuel Gragg. In 1808 he patented a bentwood chair that he called: “Elastic.” Although thanks to the patent office being burned down later in the century, it is a fair assumption that his was the first, and certainly the most deserving piece of patented furniture in the new republic.

An exhibition of this work that I created and curated in 2003 “The Incredible Elastic Chairs of Samuel Gragg” can be found here, thanks to the Chipstone Foundation:

http://www.chipstone.org/content.php/17/Exhibition-Archive

Ship’s Wheel

I made this ship’s wheel for a two part article I wrote for WoodenBoat magazine. (Note:screws all hidden under stringing)

Making old furniture

The top half of this cupboard is the oldest known piece of case furniture from Cambridge, Mass. I made the base riffing off of other, slightly later objects in other collections, and extrapolating the details from the top half. The color difference is due to the flash in a dark room.

Carving

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These are some examples of my carving work.

Welcome

Thanks for visiting my site. For a full introduction, please click over to About…then come back and look at my work. Mike Pod-

Derby Summer House

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This is the Derby Summer House at Glen Magna estate, Danvers Historical Society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_Summer_House Having started my career as a model maker (see other model making tags) I was delighted when I was commissioned by a private client to make a scale model of this historic building. It’s made of wood, brass, Plexiglass and cast …