New Outdoor Chair
Hello everyone, we hope this newsletter finds you full of fond memories of the summer and gearing up for the fall. Our summer has flown by with fun times with family, friends and the opportunity to meet and make new ones.
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MA: THE SPACE BETWEEN
In the Uses of Not, Taoist philosopher Lao-Tzu wrote about the concept of Ma. We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, [...]
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THE BILTMORE ESTATE
Recently, Robert Carran, The Boggs Collective Woodshed manager brought in some superb high-quality white pine. The logs were all around 13 feet long and 40” in diameter. The best part is that all this wood was sourced locally from the Biltmore Estate. The Biltmore has a long history with responsible forestry practices — in fact [...]
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FREEHAND GALLERY — LOS ANGELES
Did you know that you can now find The Boggs Collective’s fine furniture at Freehand Gallery in Los Angeles? On a recent teaching tour in California, Brian met Carol Sauvion, of Craft in America and Freehand Gallery. Carol loved Brian’s designs, and now, she is exclusively representing his work on the West Coast. The following [...]
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Ma: The Space Between
Ma: The Space Between Appalachian Artists Collaborate to Explore the Japanese Concept of “Ma” In Japanese, the word “ma” expresses a principal that’s rarely articulated in Western art: an awareness of form and non-form as equally significant. In music, it may be the space between notes, in drama, a pause between lines. Three Asheville, North [...]
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INTERVIEW: GUITARIST ED DODSON!!
The Boggs Collective is very proud to have Ed Dodson as both a friend and client. Ed and his band, Wood and Steel, play the bluegrass music of North Carolina “with a reverence for the traditional sound, but unafraid to feather its repertoire with songs from a variety of sources, all done bluegrass style”. With [...]
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CUSTOMMADE.COM SHOWCASES THE SONUS CHAIR!!!
Arielle Tonkin, the Creative Content Manager at Custom Made, has just posted a blog recognizing the excellence of our Sonus Chair, designed specifically for guitar players. It’s a great overview of Brian Bogg’s masterful design, and you’re sure to gain a greater appreciation for the well thought out details by reading it. Even if you [...]
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THE BOGGS COLLECTIVE on CUSTOMMADE.COM
In addition to viewing our furniture here on our home site, you can now shop the custommade.com website for a wide variety of The Boggs Collective items. CustomMade connects makers of handcrafted, personalized, or customizable goods with shoppers seeking unique items. Custommade was so taken with our guitar chair, a.k.a., the Sonus Chair, that they [...]
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OLD ROCKING CHAIR STORY
The following was written by a long time friend and client of Brian Boggs, and the Boggs Collective: When we got married and set up house for ourselves, most of our furniture was what you’d call family hand-me-downs. Instead of being disappointed with our old, sometimes beat-up furniture, we soon discovered our hand-me-downs connected us [...]
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