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Join us for an Artist Reception Friday, June 9th , 5-8PM at our Downtown Portland Showroom, featuring light appetizers and beverages.

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The Joinery artist reception

About the artist

Standing wool wall hangings are freeform fiber sculptures. These pieces are created by stitching together coils of felt. Each piece has a hanging loop on the back for easy installation.

Amy Reader is a fiber and installation artist currently living and working in Portland, OR. She graduated with honors from the University of Richmond in May of 2015 where she studied studio art and education. In her senior year, she created a collaborative crochet installation called the #100womenproject which is her largest installation to date. That year she also received the Capital One Merit Award for Excellence in Studio Art.

Our Shop team has been busy this Spring and some stunning pieces have just moved into our Showrooms. With over a hundred pieces on display between both locations, there are too many to feature them online, and so we chose a few of our favorites to highlight below. 

Click here to set up an appointment at either our Downtown Portland or St. Johns Showrooms, or call us at (503) 788-8547 if you are interested in a particular piece. 


Pacific Entry table

Pacific Entry Table in Western Walnut, built by Jeff. Available at St. Johns showroom

The Joinery is excited once again to be partnering again with students enrolled in the Architecture and Design program at Sabin-Schellenberg, a professional technical high school serving the North Clackamas school district, to showcase and auction their innovative creations made from scrap lumber donated by The Joinery. Students will use industry leading 3D modeling software and digital manufacturing equipment to convert scrap wood into consumer products such as puzzles, lamps, and artwork. 

Student Work project

The Joinery bedframes

As the unexpected snowy weather hit Portland at the end of February this year, we thought about some of our favorite bedroom vignettes that we would love to curl up in to watch the snow fall. See below for more details on each of these styles and the pieces we paired with them. 

 

4 artists, 4 media, all about celebrating the harbinger of spring: Spring is a time of rejuvenation and renewal in the Pacific Northwest, as we shed the wet chill of winter and burst forth with new life. There is no better embodiment of spring than the cherry blossom, a delicate and ephemeral flower that blooms in resplendent pink, igniting in us the hope of rebirth.

As 2022 drew to a close, it marked the end of our 40th anniversary year. We thoroughly enjoyed highlighting our team, processes and partners that helped us achieve this milestone throughout the course of last year. The highlight was the celebration event – our first since COVID – in our St. Johns manufacturing facility. Our team is so grateful to have been able to share that experience with our customers and partners.

The Joinery celebrating 40 years of handcrafting furniture

As 2022 drew to a close, it marked the end of our 40th anniversary year. We thoroughly enjoyed highlighting our team, processes and partners that helped us achieve this milestone throughout the course of last year. The highlight was the celebration event – our first since COVID – in our St. Johns manufacturing facility. Our team is so grateful to have been able to share that experience with our customers and partners.

Thank you again to all who celebrated with us on our 40th anniversary in person and for following us online as we shared the stories of some of our team members throughout the past year here. Please be sure to keep an eye out in our newsletter for fun events as we begin planning events for 2023.

Join us for an Artist Reception Friday, January 27th, 5-8PM at our Downtown Portland Showroom, featuring light appetizers and beverages.

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Art by kjirsten severson

About the art

TYPOGRAPHY BACK IN BLACK – kjirsten severson

Come see a full circle, historically, literally, and metaphorically in the history of typography. Typography is a hot field once again thanks to technology put to creative use. This project, however, is not that. Kjirsten Severson’s use of silkscreen frames that bear the enlarged characters of a 1936 Smith Corona is anything but high-tech. 

Kjirsten's emphasis on black and white standard typography is a return but a return that is not the "Same" thanks to Dadaism and Futurism in the early 1900s and the typography of Jackson Mac Low and Ian Hamilton Finlay in the 1960s and 70s. These movements challenged the dominance of the black and white newspaper print that governed society with authority; Mac Low and Hamilton Finlay used color and refused linear sequencing. In so doing, they wiped the slate clean and allowed kjirsten to return to the simplicity of black and white typeface in order to show the authority of that which makes all language possible – the authority of mystery –  the mystery behind language, the mystery by which language is born and creates; the mystery by which our senses of selves are born and create; the mystery of communion through text and image, and in this project specifically, TEXT AS IMAGE.
Come check out this crossover of concrete minimalist poetry, typography, philosophy, and memoir at The Joinery’s Downtown Portland Showroom at 922 SW Yamhill Friday, January 27th, 5.00-8.00 pm.

Featuring Pacific Northwest artists

The Joinery is proud to sell the works of local fine artists at both of our showrooms. Every two months we feature new work by a Pacific Northwest artist. With each new show there is something beautiful and fresh to see. 

We host an opening reception for the artist at our Downtown Portland location at the beginning of each show that is free and open to all. Join us for an evening of wine and appetizers, meet the artist, and receive special pricing on their work. At the end of each run, the show moves to our St. Johns showroom for an additional two months. If you can’t make the reception, please contact us here to set up an appointment to visit during our showroom hours. For more information about the art and featured shows contact our curator, Jeffrey Howard, at HOWARD-ART.com

Furniture Service Plan

The Joinery’s handcrafted wood furniture is designed for decades of use and enjoyment. To keep the protective finish looking and performing at its best, it does require some maintenance. While this is straightforward and not time-consuming, we recognize that our customers lead busy lives and may benefit from assistance to keep their furniture in great shape.
That’s where we come in. After a hiatus during COVID, The Joinery is restarting our annual Furniture Service Plan for your Joinery pieces within the Portland, OR city limits,* performed in your home by the same expert team that originally finished your furniture. As part of the annual service, our team will perform the following:

  • Inspection and surface cleaning
  • Hand-sanding where necessary using 600-grit sandpaper
  • Spot repairing any dry spots or other inconsistencies in finish
  • Repairing surface pen marks, coffee, wine, and watermarks with wet sanding process
  • Conditioning the surface with hand-applied Feed-N-Wax
  • Inspection of any moveable parts and possible tune up (e.g. drawers, hinges, table extension hardware)
  • Leveling cases that do not require removal of contents

Annual Fees for Service:

  • 1-2 pieces – $250
  • 3-4 pieces – $300
  • 5 -8 pieces – $350
  • 9 or more - Call for quote

While repairs beyond minor surface scratches or dents are not covered, we offer a 15% discount on services beyond the scope listed above as part of the annual Furniture Service Plan. To sign up for the plan visit one of our showrooms or call us at 503.788.8547.
Subscribers will be invoiced annually on the month of original enrollment, and the renewal can be canceled at any time. 

*For our customers outside the Portland city l imites, if you would like additional recommendations on how to maintain your furniture click here. If you are just outside the Portland city limits and would like to get a quote on service please conctact us here

Join us for an Artist Reception Friday, November 11th, 5-8PM at our Downtown Portland Showroom, featuring light appetizers and wine tasting with Lolati Wines.  
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Artist Reception at The Joinery in Portland


About the artist: Jennifer Foran is an artist living in Portland, Oregon.  Her art reflects her love of nature, and she draws her inspiration from the nature that surrounds her. A large body of her work is inspired by views of Mt. Tabor Park in Portland, which she visits regularly for new ideas. She credits her son, Liam, and daughter, Lydia, for her Change of Seasons Series. The time spent with her son and daughter has made her slow down, play more, go for walks and be outside more often.  Jennifer worked full time as an Elementary Art Specialist in Ridgefield, Washington where she established an art program in 2005. During this time, Jennifer provided art education to over 1,000 students in grades K-6. This experience gave her the opportunity to be inspired by young artists who intuitively expressed their creativity without hesitation or fear of mistakes.

When people view her pieces, she wants them to discover the cycles within nature; the soft-spoken reminder that everything is connected; a balance of give and take.

Jennifer Foran Artist Reception

Featuring Pacific Northwest artists
The Joinery is proud to sell the works of local fine artists at both of our showrooms. Every two months we feature new work by a Pacific Northwest artist. With each new show there is something beautiful and fresh to see. 
We host an opening reception for the artist at our Downtown Portland location at the beginning of each show that is free and open to all. Join us for an evening of wine and appetizers, meet the artist, and receive special pricing on their work. At the end of each run, the show moves to our St. Johns showroom for an additional two months. If you can’t make the reception, please contact us here to set up an appointment to visit during our showroom hours. For more information about the art and featured shows contact our curator, Jeffrey Howard, at HOWARD-ART.com

We are so thankful to be celebrating our 40th anniversary this year. As part of our celebration, we are continuing to feature members of our team and unique aspects of our process throughout the year. 

A critical aspect of creating custom furniture is ensuring that it has been engineered correctly. It is important that each piece is carefully considered in the design process to both provide the customer’s desired look, and to hold up to our lifetime warranty. That’s where our Design Engineer comes in. Marlin recently moved into this role after being a Craftsperson on our Case Team for many years. 

Meet Marlin

Marlin joined us in 2016 as a Shop Apprentice and grew to be a talented Craftsperson on our Case Team, building many custom case projects. Marlin’s curious mind was constantly thinking of ways to make the process better and improve information flow. In addition to building beautiful furniture, Marlin expanded into a design support role over the last couple of years. Seeing the benefits this provided to our team, we realized that he was ideally suited for an expanded role as Design Engineer.

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A big part of his day is to create CAD drawings to help our salespeople work with customers on their custom pieces. “This can vary from making a table slightly longer to a creating a completely custom piece,” Marlin says. “This process helps the customer get exactly what they want. I then create more detailed drawings and cut lists for builders to build those pieces."

“The part I enjoy most about my job is the problem solving that comes up with new designs and working with others to find solutions,” Marlin continues. “This often includes balancing aesthetics, functionality, the cost and efficiency of the building processes, the machine capabilities of our shop, and the limitations of the materials we work with. It’s a challenge to come up with a perfect answer, but we try our best to consider all these things when making decisions.”

Marlin also leads the efforts in updating product standards. As you might imagine with a 40-year old company, some of our product designs have been around for quite some time, while others are new. He reviews the details of all product lines to make sure they are consistent, and that older items are updated to meet our current design standards.

Marlin

After all his years in the shop, Marlin notes, “I think people would be surprised to know how much effort we put into our lumber selection. We have very high standards, so builders will spend a considerable amount of time looking for the right boards. Matching color and grain, avoiding knots and defects, and taking into consideration sap lines and continuous grain across different parts of a furniture piece can be very difficult. At times builders have to look though every board we have on hand to find the right combination for a piece.”


Thanks Marlin for your thoughtful approach, detailed eye and significant contributions to The Joinery over the years!

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