2004 Award of Distinction Recipient
Mr. Bennett’s award was presented June 25, 2004 by his friend Bernice Wollman.
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Garry Bennett is credited with orchestrating one of the defining moments in studio furniture history. In 1979, after finishing a highly sophisticated padauk wood and glass cabinet for a gallery show, he drove a sixteen-penny nail into the cabinet’s richly polished door, and subsequently bent the nail into the surface. He managed to offend a number of collegial sensibilities with this act. His response was that he wanted “to make a statement that I thought people were getting a little too goddamn precious with their technique. I think tricky joinery is just to show, in most instances, that you can do tricky joinery.”
Garry Knox Bennett passed away peacefully on January 28, 2022 in Oakland, CA