There was more to the construction than meets the eye. The posts, for example, have a laminated tulipwood core with heavy, rift-sawn, white oak veneers on all twelve surfaces of each post. That's twenty-two pieces of wood in each of eight bedposts! Hours of careful fitting, joining, and fairing turned out a deceptively simple looking, lively bed that brings a fine tradition into the present.

The king bed we made for Jed Johnson features a surface texture carved in white oak that decorates the minimal frame of an expansive, upholstered headboard, as well as the bed's rails and feet. There's only one way to create the consistent irregularity of this surface: carve each scallop by hand, with a small gouge, one after another after another. We calculated that the bed has some 50,000 individually chiseled scallops--more hours of the attention to detail that insures a high quality result. This surface texture has a wide range of possible uses, as decoration on panels or frames, small boxes or large doors.