溫哥華木工達人
專程參訪懷德居
WE ARE SMALL, BUT POWERFUL
─懷德居家具知識館─
10/30 我們收到一封陌生木工人的電郵:自稱來自溫哥華,希望拜訪懷德居。電郵中說到自己曾受教 Allen Peters 門下,並在承繼 James Krenov 精神所創立的 Inside Passage 細木工學校,接受訓練。他報上了自己的學習經歷,還在信末表達渴望見面等等。
客人毛遂自薦,信裡提到 Allen Peters、James Krenov 以及 Inside Passage School of Fine Cabinetmaking 等。James Krenov 大名鼎鼎,木工人不認識,不配木工人;Allen Peters 過去也有所悉,除非同名同姓,至於 Inside Passage School of Fine Cabinetmaking 則未聽聞,但既舉著 based on the teachings of James Krenov 的名號,顯然值得先花點時間做些功課,以便和客人對話。
經由 google 確認,信中提到的 Allen Peters,即是懷德居館藏《Cabinetmaking - the professional approach》一書的作者,廿年前我曾帶領同學臨摹他新明式﹝Neo-Ming﹞條桌的造法,不中不西,非典桌案。製作完成後,擺放在研究室自用直到退休,這十多年間所有進出研究室的賓客,幾乎都視而不見,惟一例外,僅只舊金山前中國古典家具博物館柯惕思﹝Curtis Evarts﹞館長來訪時,發現了她的獨特。
木工年鑑贈嘉賓,懷德居多禮有理
“The world doesn’t owe you a living.” It is the challenge and responsibility of the Furniture Maker to design goods for which the buying public is willing to part with its money. This is the break that allows Krenov to be Krenov and not muddy the waters of the professional furniture maker.
– Alan Peters
來訪貴客 Dave Bartlett 在懷德居藏書房,興奮翻閱英籍木工老師 Alan Peters 的著作 ─ 1986 版Cabinetmaking- the professional approach,見書如見人,Alan Peters 繼 Sam Maloof & James Krenov 都在2009 相繼辭世,令人不勝晞噓。
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Dave 在森林夢工場和週五班學員家瑜、繼中對話﹝左﹞,驚訝他們在短短的學習過程中,就已經有那麼精采的表現。接著到體驗館,乘坐 C chair﹝右﹞,見識丹麥設計,驚奇不已!
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名校出高徒 果然細木工
Dave 在學作品 2010~2011
“I’m an amateur and always will be. That’s the way I want to die. I’m an amateur by nature. David Pye wrote somewhere that the best work of this century would certainly be done by amateurs.”
延伸瀏覽
5-1世紀大老http://hdg.tosaint.com/entry/5-1-世紀大老
Inside Passage School of FineCabinetmakinghttp://www.insidepassage.ca/
College of the Redwoods FineFurniture http://crfinefurniture.com/