Featured Member: Phillip Keefe
Phillip Keefe is traditional hand-tool woodworker currently based in Chicago, IL. He was introduced to woodworking at a very young age by his father, a hobbyist who built Queen Anne-style furniture in an old country workshop. Phillip was never a formal student of the craft, but began a self-guided education through books and museum exhibitions and ultimately embraced the pre-industrial methods that guide his work today. He considers himself a contemporary furniture designer and constantly challenges the way we register furniture in our day-to-day lives: not just as objects of utility, but as a means of creative expression.