Thurs 3/10/16 Update

According to Alameda Antique fair's website the rescheduled date for March (Sunday 3/13) has now been cancelled. Next show is April 3. Hopefully weather will cooperate. Couple additional pieces shown below, many others in previous post.

 First photo is of custom Kitchen Island base. Fabricated steel 3x3 angle iron, the facade is redwood from VERY old watertank, milled and bleached. Very textural.

 This is the third one of these "crates" I have worked on. This one I oriented upright. Crates are steel and oak. I put it on very heavy duty industrial castors. Doors are surfaced reclaimed doug fir with panels made from zinc architectural fragments and vintage poplar drapers table. Not to mention some very cool antique hardware.

New Furniture as of Friday 3/4/2016, Alameda rescheduled

Alameda Antique fair scheduled for sunday 3/6 has been rescheduled, new date is next Sunday, 3/13. Weather permitting we will be there, 4 full booths of furniture plus more select material from my warehouse. As mentioned previously, I am leaving warehouse in one year, so am beginning to bring to Alameda my collection of architectural salvage and other interesting objects. All are welcome to visit and pick my warehouse, open by appt., contact Bryan at 415 336 2784.

First cabinet. I have a collection of over 100 leaded glass doors, makes sense to use up as many as possible. Most of my glass comes from my Kansas connection, however these came from local salvage yard. Tulips? Faceframe includes some frags I acquired from SF victorian gate that I deconstructed. The pale blue/green top and side wood is new for me, just bought a large load it came from recently deconstructed Ross, Ca. house. Antique cast iron hardware.

Cabinet 2. These glass panels from Kansas connection:) The hinges here I believe came from old trunks? Cast iron, I have been collecting them for years, they are very cool. 

Cabinet 3. Some of the glass panels have beveled pieces of glass. Very cool. This cabinet has some frags on the faceframe that are solid cast zinc, was told they came from pre civil war era St Louis commercial building. Beautiful antique cast iron hardware. SOLD

Cabinet 4. Bought these old pinball decks at Alameda flea some years ago, thinking I would make coffee tables. They are from Atlantic City boardwalk. Very colorful cabinet! Antique hardware and reclaimed wood throughout.

Cabinet 5. Another crate from the Emeryville printing plant, I had five of these at one point. This is second one I have used, more to come. The sides are oak, they had skids on them and were moved around the plant by forklift. Believe they were full of lead type. Heavy!! The first one I processed I made into open shelf unit. Got the idea to make a cabinet out of this one worked out pretty cool! I bought the old rootbeer advertising panels at the sacto flea awhile back, just the right size for these doors. More of the antique cast iron trunk hinges and some very nice latches. On oversized vintage factory wheels, moves very nice.

Wine rack no.1. A few years ago I acquired these carved furniture pcs., I deconstructed an antique English bowfront glass cabinet. Lions? Dogs? Not sure. Maple wine rack is salvage along with reclaimed wood for cabinet body.

Wine cabinet #2. Zinc grape clusters, very old, really don't remember where I got them but seemed to me they needed to be on a wine rack cabinet. Carved wood pilaster capital, antique cast iron stove legs, reclaimed wood throughout.

Vintage wood lockers, restored. Sold.  Below, before and after shots of vintage workbench from old gunshop. Sold.

Left,beautiful maple top industrial workbench, I restored the top surface, cleaned up the steel base-was very greasy:) Nice. Sold.                                                             Below,  Cute little wood frame on wheels. I found at SF flea, added the shelf and top.

More benches, these have shelves.

Here are some industrial pcs. First, a pair of small steel lockers, polished. Added feet and the reclaimed wood tops.

Recently bought several steel dressers from estate of a SF antique dealer, there are two of them here. Polished. These are the last of them.

nice patina

Unusual style of steel locker. The face of this one polished.

Right, Ginko leaves? Small end table size, signed by artist, "TT". Found it at local salvage yard. Polished up nicely.

From same estate the dressers came from. Did not have original pulls so I improvised with these antique white porcelain doorknobs. Polished. SOLD

Redwood planters, recently installed custom order.

NEW FURNITURE Jan 24 2016, Pre Alameda show post

Upcoming Alameda show is two weeks from this post, I am posting these photos now as inventory is building up nicely. There will be quite a few more pieces as Feb 7 approaches, hoping the weather cooperates! I recently purchased several truckloads of industrial pcs., I will post photos as these pieces are processed. Lastly, I have recently come to an agreement with the new owner of my building. Although at this point is verbal, once a written contract is signed I will be shutting off furniture building in  my warehouse 12 months from signing. So in preparation for leaving I will be liquidating quite a bit of architectural and industrial salvage, I will be bringing this to Alameda and also be holding warehouse sales.   SAT JAN 30 UPDATE: Posting some more photos here today, new pcs for Alameda also a couple of customs.   FEB 5 UPDATE- Adding final photos, Huge amount of new furniture, smalls, architectural salvage(lost my lease I am starting to bring my treasures out to the market need to liquidate. Corbels, columns, frags, etc. Great stuff!

 Bought an ancient Coca Cola cooler a few years ago , was pretty far gone for restoration. Cut these panels out tho... 

coffee table from wooden painters ladder, deconstructed 5 panel door

Vintage heavy oak desk, restored. Second photo is bottom of the drawer- Not often that you find provenance written down like this:) Circa 1911 

Bench from industrial salvage pc

Panel on this door is steel, very cool pc of architectural salvage from Eldorado county bank.  Fancy antique oversized hinges, reclaimed wood throughout 

side view

 Vintage slag glass doors on this cabinet. Reclaimed wood, antique hardware

Vintage laundry cart, amazing great condition

Custom pc., very large! Built to hide TV, hold books, etc. Although made as two sections, was a challenge to bring into the house:)

 This is an interesting handmade primitive industrial pc, all aluminum.

 Two consoles here. First pc. shown, the decorative elements used include some solid cast zinc architectural frags, very old, likely from very large commercial building. Also some very nice cast iron pcs from victorian fireplace tool stand I took apart, have owls on them. This one what I would describe as "whites and creams".

 Second console, Ends are made from old wooden painters ladder. Beachy pastels for top. Decorative elements include old rusty light fixture I deconstructed, victorian curtain tie backs, center pc from extremely old french table I took apart.

 Custom dining table, with Toledo stools staged as seating. These stools are adjustable, 19.5" to 28" high. they will work for dining table up to kitchen island. Circa 1940-49. Polished steel 13 avail.

Found this heavy wrought iron base at the salvage yard. Paired it with some very nice true honduras red mahogany I have had for several years, nice outdoor pc.

Reclaimed Maple butcher block paired with some salvaged factory carts. 

Blue shutters as doors, I saved these shutters from an exterior remodel in Rockridge (Oakland)I did 16 yrs ago! Had quite a few and these are the last of them. Very nice antique hardware, reclaimed wood throughout.

 This steel locker had some really cheesy masonite board on the side, replaced it with this old galvanized yellow steel panel. Added wheels.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Cabinet with antique steel panel as door

 Benches! So far I have eight here, various sizes, with and without shelves.

 Coffee Tables. First photo the base is an old Radio  Flyer wagon mated with antique cast iron stove legs. Second shot the base is an antique cast iron stove base, quite ornate. Reclaimed wood mix for tops.

 The piece shown at right is console table ht. I have had this antique cast iron machine base for several years. Sofa or entry way console?

 Found this industrial base at Urban Ore quite a few years ago. Believe was homemade base for a small table saw. I took apart a vintage dynamite box for facade of upper section. Cool graphics. Interesting carved elements as columns for shelf, from victorian era chair. Antique Stanley cast iron level and old IBM clock face complete the top section. Fun piece! Nightstand ht. (24")

 Custom dining table, 3x12 doug fir beams glued and doweled together as single slab.

 Purchased the redwood "X" wine rack from salvage yard, encased in reclaimed wood cabinet. Top is Black Walnut, each "X" holds one case of wine.

These cubes are sized to hold LP's, but could be used for anything. I have made quite a few boxes of various sizes, good use for small pcs of wood that were cutoffs from larger projects.

Vintage heavy steel cart as Bar Cart or small kitchen island, 36" ht 

"baby skid". Skids are rather common, were used in industrial application in factories, etc.  This one unusual as is quite small. Put it up on these oversized iron wheels it is functional as coffee table now.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Add Large cast aluminum "M", salvage pc.