Huston & Company: Winter Works

It's been a long time since we've posted and updated. It's been a busy winter so far.

We spent a few days in Boston in January at the ALA (American Library Association) Midwinter Meeting, where we had a booth in the exhibit hall. It was our first ALA meeting ever and it was busy and encouraging.

We love working with librarians. We find that in general, they are such great communicators; they know what they want, know how to express themselves, and always follow up. We enjoyed hearing about the various projects out there in the library world, and meeting so many people with such a positive outlook.

Here are a couple of images of our booth. We designed and built the study tables just for this show, and the two carrel models as well. The small carrel models were very popular in our booth. I think we could start up a side business: library furniture for American Girl Dolls. Kidding.

That last image is one of the carrel models. It's about 14" tall.

We have some great projects in the shop right now. We are working on an executive desk with all the bells and whistles. This will be the second of these desks for the same client - he liked the first one so much he decided he'd like another. One for each office location. The first desk was built by Mike in 1993. You may have seen a picture of it on our website or in our literature.

Mike is building the new desk too. Same client, same desk, same craftsman, 17 years later.

Here it is, on it's side - the top is facing us. (picture above)

This is the storage unit that will be attached to the top of the desk. Charlie worked on this first, while Mike finished up another project.

Mike just fitted the drawers, now working on trim.

For a client in Maryland, we are working on two pieces. We've done quite a bit of work for this client in the past. Her teenage daughter will be lucky enough to have one of these gems in her bedroom to store curios. The other is a dining room storage piece. Saer is working on these.